Video or VideoDisplay in Flex: when does it make sense to use one or the other

Question

Flex appears to have 2 video classes: Video and VideoDisplay. My question is when does it make sense to use one or the other?

What I can tell from initial glancing is that VideoDisplay responds to mouse events because it inherits from IntaractiveObject, but I'm not sure if it's a real difference, because Video seems to have a workaround for this in that you can add your own event listeners.

There's probably more to it, but this is the only difference I can see now. So my question for those who used these objects extensively, can you share your experience when you use one over the other.

Answer 1

You'll nearly always want to use VideoDisplay. Video isn't a UIComponent, it can't handle its own loading from URL, won't dispatch any Flex events, and you can't bind to any of the properties such as playHeadTime. Video is a very basic DisplayObject that's capable of displaying video data, and doesn't do much else. It's more of a building-block, that you'd only use if you wanted to do something funky, or are building a Flash (non-flex) app.