Shockwave1

[D Willett]

Just wondering if anyone is familiar with using the shockwave flash component.
I have some help video's on Youtube which I want to show in a VB6 form as opposed to the user redirected through a web browser.
I read an article which allows a local video to be shown using the Shockwave component which is easy enough but struggling to pass the url to the control and play the file....

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Private Sub Command1_Click()
S1.Movie = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jpu6-prm-E"
S1.Play

End Sub

[HansV]

What's the objection to displaying the video in the user's web browser?

Perhaps you could use the Microsoft Web Browser control?

[D Willett]

Morning Hans.

Yeah, I tried that and got the control working, but you get the whole web page as opposed to just the video.
Alternatavely I could download the video and play locally but then the video's have top be stored and distributed.
I was hoping for a control to just show the video and not the full page

[HansV]

If you supply the URL

http://www.youtube.com/v/8jpu6-prm-E" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

you get the YouTube video "fullscreen" (i.e. filling the component). And if you want it to play automatically:

http://www.youtube.com/v/8jpu6-prm-E?autoplay=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[D Willett]

Which is exactly what I was after

Cheers Hans