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Path problems when loading flv’s into NetStream object

May 19th, 2005 by Thomas

When loading flv’s into a NetStream object Flash seems to use a different base-path than normally.

Consider the following structure:

/index.html (embeds the swf) /flash/movie.swf /videos/video.flv /images/image.gif

if you want to load the image you’d use the relative path: images/image.gif because the path where the embedding HTML is located is the base-path.

Now if you want to load the video in the same movie you’d have to use: ../videos/video.flv because in this particular case, Flash uses the location of the swf as the base-path!

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5 Responses to “Path problems when loading flv’s into NetStream object”

  1. kmf Says:
    March 29th, 2006 at 11:36 am

    Thank you so much for that tip. I’ve spent 1hr trying to figure out why tho flvs wouldn’t load. I guess I should have checked the internet a bit sooner.

  2. frank Says:
    October 3rd, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    yes! this was very helpful at a time when my brain wasn’t processing path errors whilst troubleshooting!

  3. General Bordeaux Says:
    December 4th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    Hey!! Train load of thanks for the tip. Helped a lot. But the bug or problem is very funny.

  4. Phil Walton Says:
    February 5th, 2009 at 2:27 am

    Yes I just encountered this problem today. It seems stupid because flash uses paths relative to the html for loading all other file types.

    Are you aware of a solution to this problem? Does this bug also happen in AS3?

  5. Cristian Rusu Says:
    January 13th, 2010 at 9:02 am

    My math is fine, stupid blog

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