the current page my flash application is running from is http://localhost:3000/. I'm trying to play a video using NetStream.play(relativeURL) by using a relative URL (e.g. "myVideo.flv"), but when I look at the actual request made by actionscript, it's dropping the port number. (e.g. http://localhost/myVideo.flv).
Is there something I can do on the flash side to make this work? Is anyone else having this problem?
NetConnection.connect( null )is used to play progressive video and has nothing to do with whether the (video)file's hosted locally or remotely. If you would want to play streaming video, you'd pass in the host url of the streaming service. And yes, if you use a relative URL the port is dropped. I suppose some kind of 'translation' from relative to absolute is done, using the location of the embedding html file, which wouldn't be containing the port number, I think? Have you tried passing the absolute url (with port number) as the 'base' parameter to the .swf?