Cross Platform Issue in FLV Cuepoints

The entire heavy coding production is done in my own laptop. After completed majority functions of the interactive video, right at the submission day, the FLV video is not working fine in college server. Because it is a submission timeline, there's not much of time for debugging. At such unpredictable incident, I am tempted to be panic. But I know that I need to show the best of the project outcome in the submission. Therefore, I tried to re-publish the files to test if this help to solve the platform problems. Somehow it's still not very stable. At the end I have to present the work from my laptop. 

Some of the classmates that explore cuepoints scripts face the same problems too. I think we can form a technical support group to continue learn together before the deadline (5pm of 10th Feb). This way it helps my learning as well.

Interactive Management

In the coding production, I realized that the connection between characters from one view to another view, from this person to another person can be very confusing. I could choose to use timeline animation to hard code the flv video and place the button accordingly. But if I choose to do so, I will not be learning a new knowledge to do things differently. Therefore, I remain using cuepoints structure to code the interactive video. Due to the time available, I do not have time to do too simplified and concrete script architecture. The result of the convenient coding structure is going to be long lines of script. (I got 500 overlines of scripts)

Discovery of AS3 Flvplayback & Cuepoints

I felt a little insecure when I had to swim in the ocean of knowledge and solidify what can be found of the internet and develop into skill to apply in a project. After sometimes of exploration and testing, these are my little knowledge discovered. 

#1: Add in cuepoints: control the video play pressing the play button. Pressing spacebar anytime you would like to pause the video. Then at the CUE POINTS window, click on plus icon to add label for the video timeline.

#2: Adjust timecode: If the timeline labelled needs to be adjusted. Click on the timecode area and key-in the time required. Name of the cuepoint can be edited by clicking on it as well. 

#3: Remove Flvplayer Controller: Click on the pencil icon at the Skin section. You can then choose from the skin list. In my case, I choose none.

#4: Back up the cuepoints: As the Flv has very location specific character, when you relink the Flv video, all the cuepoints added previously in Flash will be gone. So there's a disk icon allowing me to save all the cuepoints into XML file. I've tried this at the beginning of the knowledge exploration. And I also tried to relink the XML to the new Flv video.