Displaying a video using the VideoElement control in Flex 4

The following example shows how you can display a video using the chromeless VideoElement control in Flex 4.

The following example(s) require Flash Player 10 and the Adobe Flex 4 SDK. To download the Adobe Flash Builder 4 trial, see http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/. To download the latest nightly build of the Flex 4 SDK, see http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4.
For more information on getting started with Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4, see the official Adobe Flex Team blog.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/05/14/displaying-a-video-using-the-videoelement-control-in-flex-gumbo/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_VideoElement_test"
        xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
        xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
        xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo">

    <mx:ApplicationControlBar width="100%" cornerRadius="0">
        <s:Button id="playBtn"
                label="play"
                click="videoElement.play();" />
        <s:Button id="pauseBtn"
                label="pause"
                click="videoElement.pause();" />
        <s:Button id="stopBtn"
                label="stop"
                click="videoElement.stop();" />
        <s:CheckBox id="mutedCheckBox"
                label="muted"
                selected="true"
                click="videoElement.muted = mutedCheckBox.selected;" />
        <s:Graphic>
            <s:SimpleText id="playheadTimeLabel"
                    text="{videoElement.playheadTime.toFixed(3)}" />
        </s:Graphic>
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>

    <s:Group horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0">
        <s:VideoElement id="videoElement"
                autoRewind="true"
                source="http://helpexamples.com/flash/video/cuepoints.flv"
                muted="true"/>
    </s:Group>

</s:Application>

View source is enabled in the following example.

This entry is based on a beta version of the Flex 4 SDK and therefore is very likely to change as development of the Flex SDK continues. The API can (and will) change causing examples to possibly not compile in newer versions of the Flex 4 SDK.