[osflash] Check if Live Stream Exists

[John Gorman]

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I don't have enough familiarity 
with AS3 to do something as complicated as this app. Can you think of a 
way to accomplish this in AS2?

Diego Vilariño wrote:
> hello,
> with as3 maybe you can try something like this:
>
> sNames.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netstat);
>
> public function netstat(stats:NetStatusEvent){
> 	if(stats.info.code != "|NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound|") {
> 		// stream exists
> 	}
> }
>
>
>
> John Gorman escribió:
>   
>> First let me think you all for answering all the questions on this list. 
>> Many of the replies have been helpful to me so far.
>>
>> I am working with a customized version of oflaDemo. I have archived 
>> .flv's and also live streams that I would like to be able to display and 
>> play. I have no experience with Java, so I do everything with 
>> ActionScript in Flash. I am trying to write a function that will check 
>> if a live stream exists, and eventually put the stream name into a 
>> datagrid like the one in the demo.
>>
>> Here is what I have so far:
>>
>> function liveCheck() {
>>     for(var i:Number = 1; i < 11; i++) {
>>         sName = loadedvar.path + i;
>>        
>>         this.ns2 = new NetStream(this.nc);
>>         ns2.setBufferTime(1);
>>         ns2.play(sName, -1);
>>        
>>         if (ns2.bytesLoaded != undefined) {
>>             // stream exists
>>         }
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> setInterval(liveCheck, 30000);
>>
>> sName is the name of the stream, which is read in from an external file 
>> and a number ranging from 1-10 is concatenated to the end of it. 
>> Unfortunately, this method does not detect live streams that exist.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated. I look forward to your suggestions.
>>
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