Determining a VideoDisplay control’s current playback state using the state property and stateChange event

By Peter deHaan On January 1, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can listen for stateChange events on a Flex VideoDisplay control to display the video’s current state in a ProgressBar control, List control, or just perform specific actions if a certain state is entered. It also shows how you can use a ProgressBar control to display the amount of video [...]

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Viewing an FLV video’s metadata using a Flex VideoDisplay control

By Peter deHaan On September 15, 2007 · 17 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the new metadataReceived event in Flex 3 to easily grab the metadata from an FLV file.

Full code after the jump.

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Dynamically creating ActionScript cue points from FlashVars loaded using the HTTPService tag

By Peter deHaan On August 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

In a previous post, “Dynamically creating ActionScript cue points from FlashVars received from the HTML container”, we looked at how to create ActionScript cue points based on variables passed in to our Flex application from the HTML template’s “FlashVars” parameter. In this post we look at a similar approach, although using the <mx:HTTPService /> [...]

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Dynamically creating ActionScript cue points from FlashVars received from the HTML container

By Peter deHaan On August 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

In a previous post, “Creating ActionScript cue points with the VideoDisplay controlEdit”, reader Florian asks how you can set cue points dynamically from FlashVars.

Well, here’s one method of passing a single name/value pair from the HTML template into our Flex application and having Flex parse the string and dynamically add the ActionScript cue [...]

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Setting the ProgressBar control’s labelPlacement, mode, and conversion properties

By Peter deHaan On August 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Here was a neat trick I learnt today. You can set a ProgressBar control’s labelPlacement property to “center” and have it appear within the progress bar itseslf. Pretty handy!

And just because that alone wasn’t really an interesting entry, I created a second progress bar which uses “polled” mode to determine how much of an [...]

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Building a basic controller for the VideoDisplay control

By Peter deHaan On August 5, 2007 · 27 Comments

OK, this is probably one of my more elaborate samples on the site so far. It covers a few different areas which I probably haven’t covered (or covered well) up to this point. We look at things like embedding fonts (so we can use the fade effect on a nested text field), embedding images for [...]

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Creating FLV cuepoint thumbnails using the Bitmap and BitmapData classes

By Peter deHaan On August 3, 2007 · 15 Comments

This is semi-related to the previous post, but this is something I’ve wanted to do for a while now. In fact, I first started thinking about it when I did the Image color picker sample. Basically, how can you take a bitmap image of something on the Stage and then create an item renderer out [...]

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Scrubbing an FLV using the VideoDisplay control and a slider

By Peter deHaan On August 2, 2007 · 13 Comments

In yet *another* post about the VideoDisplay control, this time we look at formatting playback times using the DateFormatter class/tag, creating a basic scrubber using an HSlider control, and applying a mildly annoying Zoom effect to the video.

Also, we tweak the slider control (or more accurately HSlider) and prevent users from clicking on the [...]

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Adding ActionScript cue points using the CuePointManager

By Peter deHaan On August 1, 2007 · 6 Comments

I was just playing around with the VideoDisplay.cuePointManager property, and made a pretty crude FLV player. The FLV URL is hard-coded, so it really isn’t very useful, but it shows how you can use the cuePointManager property and addCuePoint() method to add ActionScript cue points to an FLV.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating ActionScript cue points with the VideoDisplay control

By Peter deHaan On July 29, 2007 · 15 Comments

A simple example of creating and using ActionScript cue points with the VideoDisplay control. The example uses a VideoDisplay control to display the progressively downloaded video, a ProgressBar to display the amount of video that has played back, and two DataGrid controls to show ActionScript cue points and embedded cue points.

Full code after the [...]

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Getting started with the VideoDisplay control

By Peter deHaan On July 23, 2007 · 1 Comment

I was experimenting with the VideoDisplay control the other day and built this simple little example to help me understand the order of events when loading a Flash Video (FLV).

 

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Detecting a connection error when loading an FLV with the VideoDisplay control

By Peter deHaan On July 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The other day I was playing with the VideoDisplay control in Flex and was curious why my simple test cases were not working. Well, as it turns out, my remote server wasn’t available so the Flash Video (FLV) couldn’t be loaded. So I quickly typed up the following code to listen for the stateChange event [...]

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