Playing a video with flex, AS3 - actionscript-3

Question

I am currently trying to make a game on flex and one of the problems I ran in to is how to play a short animation at the beginning. This is what I have so far:
Game.mxml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
name="Game"
backgroundColor="#000000"
horizontalAlign="center"
creationComplete="Init();"
enterFrame="UpdateFrame();"
paddingLeft="0"
paddingTop="0"
paddingBottom="0"
paddingRight="0"
width="800" height="600">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
include "Game.as";
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Canvas id="gamePanel" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" mouseDown="MouseDown(event)" mouseUp="MouseUp(event)" mouseMove="MouseMoved(event)"/>
</mx:Application>
and Game.as
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
import mx.events.*;
import mx.controls.*;
[Embed(source="MyVideoClip.flv")] private var MyVideoClip:Class;
public function Init():void
{
var MyVideo:Video = new Video(800, 600);
addChild(MyVideo);
var qNetConnection:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
qNetConnection.connect(null);
var qNetStream:NetStream = new NetStream(qNetConnection);
MyVideo.attachNetStream(qNetStream);
qNetStream.client = new Object();
qNetStream.play(MyVideoClip);
}
private function UpdateFrame():void
{
}
private function MouseDown(event:MouseEvent):void
{
}
private function MouseUp(event:MouseEvent):void
{
}
private function MouseMoved(event:MouseEvent):void
{
}
I am rather new to Flex and AS3 so most of this code was ripped off web tutorials. Whenever I try to compile it I get: 'Error: 'MyVideoClip.flv' does no have a recongnized extention, and a mimeType was not provided. Error: unable to transcode 'MyVideoClip.flv''
If I remove the 'embed' line and replace MyVideoClip with "MyVideoClip.flv" in the play() function, the code compiles with no errors, but when I open the SWF all I get is a black screen. What am I doing terribly wrong?
Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Try setting the mime-type, e.g.:
[Embed(source = "MyVideoClip.flv", mimeType = "application/octet-stream")]

Answer 2

You embedded the video file (its bytes) into the output SWF. So now NetStream must play from a bytes source. Just set a byteArray as equal to new MyVideoClip(); and append to NetStream.
Try this...
[Embed(source="MyVideoClip.flv", mimeType="application/octet-stream")] private var MyVideoClip:Class; //# embed the FLV's bytes
public var VideoClipBytes : ByteArray;
public var MyVideo:Video;
public var qNetConnection:NetConnection;
public var qNetStream:NetStream;
public function Init():void
{
VideoClipBytes = new MyVideoClip() as ByteArray; //# fill a byte Array with embedded bytes
qNetConnection = new NetConnection(); qNetConnection.connect(null);
qNetStream = new NetStream(qNetConnection);
qNetStream.client = new Object();
MyVideo = new Video(800, 600);
MyVideo.attachNetStream(qNetStream);
addChild(MyVideo);
qNetStream.play(null); //# play mode is now bytes
qNetStream.appendBytesAction(NetStreamAppendBytesAction.RESET_BEGIN); //# ready for new audio/video data
qNetStream.appendBytes( VideoClipBytes ); //# add bytes to decoder queue (playback)
}
PS : I made some of your variables as public so later you can access & control them from any other functions. Remember if you make var inside a public function it stays valid only in that one function and doesn't exist to other functions. Best make such vars as publicly available to all functions.