Creating a Video Player in Flash Professional 8

By: Tom Green on Monday, August 29, 2005
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Macromedia seems to have pulled off a magic trick: Make Flash video more complex but easier than ever to use.

In the first part of this overview of the new video features of Flash Professional 8, I showed you how to use the new tools in Flash Professional 8 — The Wizard and the Flash 8 Video Encoder — to create the FLV file. In this installment I will walk you through the use of the new FLVPlayback component and the new FLV Custom PlayBack UI components.