How can I put a video file (AVI) in a flash application?

Question

I'm building a Flash application and I want to put a movie in it. I wish it had a navigation control like in youtube. I'm a programmer dealing with an application designed by a client, so I had to do it in Flash, even not been very skillful in it.

Answer 1

Hi, if you are using the plain Flash and not Flex you should use the FLVPlayback component that Flash bundled with the player. You can read the documentation here. You can add you controls and connect them with the FLVPlayback instance. For example you can create your custom button for play and than call the play() method

Maybe there are more advanced controls out there based on FLVPlayback. I also remember that you can download an updated version from the adobe website if your video is a stream published with the new Media Server.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

here's an open source player , kind of a classic :

http://www.longtailvideo.com/