Re: [flexcoders] YouTube style video (Video vs VideoDisplay)

2007-06-05 Thread Johannes Nel
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 descri

Re: [flexcoders] YouTube style video (Video vs VideoDisplay)

2007-06-05 Thread Johannes Nel
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 dif

Re: [flexcoders] YouTube style video (Video vs VideoDisplay)

2007-06-04 Thread Jeffry Houser
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 so

Re: [flexcoders] YouTube style video (Video vs VideoDisplay)

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Nel
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 th

[flexcoders] YouTube style video (Video vs VideoDisplay)

2007-06-01 Thread Mark Ingram
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 Essentially I want to