the appoach i describe has other benefits as well, like being able to seperate your stream logic from your display thus we got the same video mangement working in flash 9 in about 5 minutes.
On 6/4/07, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yeah. i saw it does that, but the problems you describe are the exact reasons we manage the code ourself. its not that much work doing it yourself and i think you can develop a much more robust system IMO On 6/4/07, Jeffry Houser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > VideoDisplay is set up to try 4 different ports. Open up the SDK > source code to verify this. > > There may be other reasons not to use it, though. I've had > significant problems with the VideoDisplay component for streaming > media. It doesn't always properly open / close connections and in some > situations you can get multiple streams playing at the same time. Only > one video is displayed, but you can hear two (or more) audio tracks. > > Johannes Nel wrote: > > > > > > for progressive and simple streaming videoDisplay is fine. i find it > too > > limiting to build a robust streaming system (something that needs to > try > > different ports switch to rtmpt etc) and we ended up writing our own > > wrappers for netstream and netconnection and extending > UIComponent and > > attching the Video object to that so it can be used in flex. > > > > On 6/1/07, *Mark Ingram* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Hi, I need to create a YouTube style video control. What is the > best > > starting point – Video or VideoDisplay? I've seen this code which > > automatically downloads a preview of the video, but is it the best > > solution? > > http://www.flashcomguru.com/tutorials/progressive_preview.cfm > > <http://www.flashcomguru.com/tutorials/progressive_preview.cfm> > > > > > > > > Essentially I want to show a thumbnail of the movie, then allow > the > > user to click the thumbnail to continue watching the whole movie. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Mark > > -- > Jeffry Houser, Technical Entrepreneur, Software Developer, Author, > Recording Engineer > AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 > -- > My Company: <http://www.dot-com-it.com> > My Podcast: <http://www.theflexshow.com > > My Blog: <http://www.jeffryhouser.com> > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- j:pn http://www.lennel.org
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