flash-video

I am using NetStream.appendBytes() to play a local video (no server involved) in Adobe AIR . I would like to use BitmapData.draw() to take a picture of the video output, but I am getting this error: Error #2123: Security sandbox violation: BitmapData.draw: cannot access null. No policy files granted access. Here is some sample code: package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.filesystem.File; import flash.filesystem.FileMode; import flash.filesystem.FileStream; import flash.media.Video; import flash.net.NetConnection; import flash.net.NetStream; import flash.net

I am trying to convert different files to a flash compatible .mp4 file with ffmpeg, but I can't seem to get it to work. Of course the objective is to get the greatest quality with the smallest file size. So far I have this, which works, but it doesn't play in a flash player for some reason. The result isn't that great, how can I improve this conversion? This is the command I'm using: ffmpeg -i input.file -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -r 25 -b 560000 -s 610x340 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 64 -ar 44100 output.file To create the interleaving metadata (which will allow for mid stream resumes, and rewinds

I am looking for an efficient way to do the following: Using several source videos (of approximately the same length), I need to generate an output video that is composed of all of the original sources each running in its own area (like a bunch of PIP s in several different sizes). So, the end result is that all the original are running side-by-side, each in its own area/box. The source and output need to be flv and the platform I am using is Windows (dev on Windows 7 64bit, deployment to Windows server 2008). I have looked at avisynth but unfortunately it can't handle flv and non of the