As a follow-up to our three-part series, "Creating a Custom Flash Video Player," yesterday Community MX released the CMX Flash Video Player component. This extension for both versions of Flash MX 2004 enables you to easily add progressive Flash video to your Flash applications.

The CMX Flash Video Player features a play/pause button, FLV download progress bar, real-time scrubbing, volume slider, and mute button. And because the extension uses the NetConnection and NetStream classes, the SWF file it generates is only 5 kilobytes in size.

We've had such a good response to this series, we're going to offer a Dreamweaver 2004 version of CMX Flash Video Player in the next couple weeks. The Dreamweaver extension is a Flash Element that inserts the video player into an HTML page. You simply browse to an FLV file in your site and you're good to go.

Both extensions, as well as the entire three-part series, are absolutely free to CMX subscribers. For more information, visit www.communitymx.com/joincmx.cfm.