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VideoLoader duration tracing out as 0 although buffer full

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Hey, 

 

I'm trying to simply load a video and get it's duration. The video does load correctly and plays but video.duration is tracing out as 0. I also tried onComplete but again the duration traces out as 0.

video = new VideoLoader(filePath, {name:"video", container:scope.videoHolder_mc, x:5, y:5, width:640, height:480, scaleMode:"proportionalInside", bgColor:0x000000, autoPlay:false, requireWithRoot:mainScope.root});//, onComplete:completeHandler});

video.addEventListener(VideoLoader.VIDEO_BUFFER_FULL, bufferFullHandler);
video.load();
 
function bufferFullHandler(e:LoaderEvent):void {
trace("video.duration: " + video.duration);
}

Thanks in advamce.

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The way videos load in Flash is a bit odd/frustrating - the metadata doesn't come in for a while sometimes, so when the buffer is full it may still not be there. Also, it's very dependent on the encoding software you used for your video (it is supposed to be injected properly). So it may be a problem with the way your video is encoded. Have you tried checking the duration after a while? Is it ever accurate (even after it has fully loaded)? 

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Hey, thank you for your reply.

 

I've loaded in a 10 second video and given it over 5 minutes to load just to check if the metadata was there but this isn't the case. I am converting the video to .flv with ffmpeg beforehand so that the software can play any video format and guess this may be causing the metadata to be lost. Any idea on how I can get around this or is it something I will have to solve with ffmpeg?

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