I have a situation where I'm loading up a video (FLV) into a Video object on
the stage using the NetConnection, NetStream, and Video classes and action
script. I want to know if the FLV I'm loading has a soundtrack or not (some of
the movies don't) so that I can choose to play a default soundtrack or let the
movie soundtrack play. Is such a thing possible?

I've noticed that the NetStream object seems to have a property, once 'play'
has been called, called 'audioCodec'. I don't find any documentation of this
property anywhere, and I wonder if it could be used to test for audio. My test
case has no sound, and the codec is listed as 0. Would this be a reliable
indicator of the presence of an audio track? Is there a place I can find the
list of codecs and the integers used to represent them in this property??

Thanks much

Cris

hi
you just read more about NetStream.onMetaData function.

arunbe,

I read the live docs information about NetStream.onMetaData, and this tells me
that it is possible that I might get some information about an audio codec, but
it doesn't really help all that much in learning if there is a way to tell if
there is an audio track present at all. Does such a possibility exist?

C

Sorry, just found the live doc for working with metadata which informs me that flv without audio tracks return 'undefined' for audio related metadata. Thanks, that ought to do it.