Anyone know how to detect when the end of a streaming video has been reached using the three basic classes: Video, NetStream or NetConnection?
Here are the approaches I'm aware of: 1. Listen on the NetStream for the NetStream.Play.Stop status event. Problem here is that this doesn't seem to signify that the end of the video has been rendered. Only that the final bytes of the NetStream have been delivered to the client. On my streaming test, this event fires well before the Video instance has actually finished playing the stream. 2. Adding cue points to the end of the video, and monitoring for those. Could work, but very annoying to have to go through all the videos and add cue points for what should be a trivial problem. 3. Grabbing the duration out of the metadata and starting a timer. Also could work. Would need to be extra careful once playback controls are added to make sure the timer is actually firing when the video's last frame completes. Since the metadata varies from .flv to .flv, I really do not want to rely on this. All of the movies I have seen do specify the duration, but I'm reluctant to rely on this method. 4. Use the VideoPlayer class. If I can't find a good solution besides this one, it will have to do. I'll have to do some work to add in the features I had added into my current setup, but it would be better than not being able to accurately detect the end of a video. 5. Compare the Netstream's bytesLoaded to it's bytesTotal In my test, bytesLoaded never differs from bytesTotal through the life of the video. It always displays the same number. This seems like such a simple problem to solve, but after looking through those three classes, I do not see any events or byte counts that I could use to react to. Hopefully I am just missing something - it seems quite odd to me that this wouldn't be included functionality in the Video class. TIA Jonathon
