What You Should Know About Video

What You Should Know About Video
If you are a Flash developer but new to video, here are a few tips and pitfalls to avoid:

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Working with the Flash 8 Video Encoder

Working with the Flash 8 Video Encoder
The Flash 8 Video Encoder is installed in a separate directory as part of your Flash 8 Professio …

Create Pop Illustration

Create Pop illustrationCreate a new background with the dimensions 400x 500, 72dpi and paint it with the white color. Then a new one an …

Behavior 3: Set URL from List Component

Behavior 3: Set URL from List Component
The Set URL from List Component behavior allows you to set up a list of video choices in a List …

Behavior 4: Set Video Stream

Behavior 4: Set Video Stream
The Set Video Stream behavior allows you to enter the path to the video to be displayed. The following ins …

Behavior 5: Toggle AutoSize

Behavior 5: Toggle AutoSize
The Toggle AutoSize behavior allows you to add code to a button so that it toggles the component’s au …

Behavior 6: Toggle Play/Pause

Behavior 6: Toggle Play/Pause
The Toggle Play/Pause behavior allows you to add code to a button so that it toggles between play and pau …

Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Streaming Flas ...

Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Streaming Flash Video
As developers, we are often bogged down with mundane tasks such as site maintenan …

Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Progressive Fl ...

Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Progressive Flash Video
There’s been a strong outcry for an article demonstrating an XML-driven p …

Exploring the Video Player Interface

Exploring the Video Player Interface
This section explains the structure of the finished player and walks you through creating the inte …

Setting Up Flash Media Server

Setting Up Flash Media Server
This article assumes that you are running Flash Media Server locally, but the application setup would be …

Writing the Client-Side ActionScript

Writing the Client-Side ActionScript
This section explains how to parse the XML document and create the dynamic playlist.
As I mentione …

Generating Dynamic Thumbnails

Generating Dynamic Thumbnails
The playlist so far is pretty snappy, but let’s not stop there. Jazz it up even more with thumbnail …

Testing the Application

Testing the Application
In the beginning of this tutorial, you copied your FLV files to your Flash Media Server installation. You will …

Why Progressive Video?

Why Progressive Video?
Comparing the pros and cons of embedded, streaming, and progressive video is beyond the scope of this article. H …

Understanding Your Thumbnail Options

Understanding Your Thumbnail Options
The greatest hurdle in adapting this application for progressive streaming is creating the thumbna …

Using Mini FLV Files

Using Mini FLV Files
The down-and-dirty approach to grabbing thumbnails without any extra files is to attach the FLV file to a scaled-d …

Creating JPEG Thumbnails

Creating JPEG Thumbnails
A more bandwidth-conscious way of displaying thumbnails is to create scaled-down JPEG files for each video fil …

Changing the NetStream Code

Changing the NetStream Code
You have to makeonly one simple change to the VideoSourcePro.as ActionScript to convert it from streaming t …

Using File Object for Video on Demand and MP3 ...

Using File Object for Video on Demand and MP3 Playback
Flash Media Server 2 offers a unique combination of traditional streaming media …