actionscript code for "BEST" quality playback for swf - no effect

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my videobox opens on pageload and plays a swf just fine but the quality is not great, i can get this script to work [as is] but i tried to modify it to just do it automatically with no buttons: heres my index page

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 http-equiv="content-type">
  <title>My page loads a video!</title>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="js/mootools.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="js/swfobject.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="js/videobox.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/videobox.css"
 type="text/css" media="screen">
</head>
<body scroll="no" style="background-image: url(bg.jpg);"
 onload="doOpenVideoDelayed('ani.swf', 'Video', 'vidbox 400 300 play', 1000);">
stop();
_root._quality = "BEST";
this._parent._quality = "BEST";
}

is this part in the right place? :~ have i completely f***ed the code? :-O i modified it from the actionscript below

stop();
_root._quality = "BEST";
this._parent._quality = "BEST";
}

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stop();
_root._quality = "BEST";
low_qual_btn.onRelease = function() {
this._parent._quality = "LOW";
}
med_qual_btn.onRelease = function() {
this._parent._quality = "MEDIUM";
}
high_qual_btn.onRelease = function() {
this._parent._quality = "HIGH";
}
best_qual_btn.onRelease = function() {
this._parent._quality = "BEST";
}

from this site --> http://fcontheweb.com/articles/swf_quality/[^]

Posted 8-Jan-11 23:26pm

infamousbreed

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Solution 1

Have you tried using
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/[^]

Here is the doc on flash params
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/127/tn_12701.html[^]

vmode could be the solution to your problem you can set it to one of the following:
window: movie plays in its own rectangular window on a web page.
opaque: the movie hides everything on the page behind it.
transparent: the background of the HTML page shows through all transparent portions of the movie. This option can slow animation performance.

Setting vmode to transparent is the computationally most expensive option ..., while window (in IE on Windows) usually provides the best performance

Also remember that setting quality to best provides the best display quality, but does not consider playback speed. All output is anti-aliased and all bitmaps are smoothed

Regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 9-Jan-11 0:01am

Espen Harlinn

Updated 9-Jan-11 0:05am

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infamousbreed 10-Jan-11 3:21am

actually im convinced now that the video quality cannot be improved it was just the way the video was - this tut helped me fix http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/videoencoderwizard/ now it plays perfect.

Espen Harlinn 10-Jan-11 4:02am

Nice that you found a solution..., sinse I answered your question I wouldn't mind a vote of confidence...

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infamousbreed · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-05T06:54:00

Solution 2

this tut helped me fix http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/videoencoderwizard/ now it plays perfect.

Posted 5-Feb-12 6:54am

infamousbreed