Creating a Custom Flash Video (FLV) Player - Part 1
By: Paul Newman on Thursday, November 18, 2004
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Want to go beyond the Flash Video Kit and the MediaPlayback component?
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a custom player for progressive Flash videos (FLVs), complete with play/pause, progress bar, volume slider, and real-time scrubbing. In addition, the player is easy to skin and you can edit basic settings using an external XML file.
In this three-part series, you'll learn to:
- Part 1 - Create a Flash video player using the MediaDisplay component
- Part 2 - Create a Flash video player without components
- Part 3 -Create a Flash video player component
In Part 1, you'll create a player that incorporates the Flash MediaDisplay component. You'll also learn how to modify or "skin" the player's appearance by replacing its movie clip symbols.
In Part 2, you'll create the same player using the NetConnection and NetStream classes, rather than the MediaDisplay component. This results in a much smaller SWF file (2K versus 58K).
In Part 3, you'll create an ActionScript class file, and associate that class with the player controls, to create a reusable Flash video player component.
Preview Flash Video Player
Includes: flv_md.fla, flv_md.as, flv_md.htm, config.xml
Videos courtesy of the Gemini Piano Trio.
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