videodisplay

Flex - does anyone have an example of the use of the VideoDisplay control events

The Flex 3 docs are fairly basic. Can someone post a more complete example that uses the control's events? I'm still trying to get my head around ActionScript events. ...

Flex: Dynamically create a preview image for a video....

I'm using the VideoDisplay to play flv's, mov's, and mp4's and everything is working great. They are all being loaded via progressive download and are not being streamed. What I'd like to do is to grab a single specified frame (like whatever is being shown at the 10 second mark), convert it to a bitmap and use that bitmap as the previe...

Flex: stop loading a VideoDisplay whitout losing loaded buffer

Hi, Is there a way to stop the download of a flv file started by the VideoDisplay object after calling the VideoDisplay.load() method ? And most important : without losing the previously loaded data. By that I mean that VideoDisplay.close() won't work for me. When I play the video after calling the close() method the request to the flv...

Scrollable display of multiple video icons

Hello, I want to have multiple video icons at the top my website's front page. I will have about 20 or so which won't fit on one line (I want to keep the videos on one like) so I thought of having two button on the right of the group and on the left of the group where you click to scroll and view more videos. Do you know an easy way to ...

How to take screenshots of a Flex Spark VideoDisplay?

I want to build a component, where the user can play a video in a Flex Spark VideoDisplay. There will be a button and whenever the button is pressed, I want to save the current time of the VideoDisplay plus a screenshot. The screenshot needs to be someway saved, because I want to display all times and screenshots in a DataGrid (screensho...

Random point on VideoDisplay isn't accurate enough

For a schoolassigment me and some buddies of mine are creating an application that is showing many similarities with the C-Mon & Kypski musicvideo on www.oneframeoffame.com. The application is being developed in Flex. We want to get a random point of a clip, let it pause so a user can mimic the pose and make a snapshot out of it. What ...

Flex VideoDisplay reconnect after idletimeout

I have a VideoDisplay that is able to connect to a source and play. After the connection times out I want the connection to be re-established when my play button is clicked. Right now when I reset the source and play the videoDisplay, it gets stuck in the loading state. ...

Flush Flex VideoDisplay request queue

When a command like play(), pause(), or seek() is called while the videoDisplay is unresponsive it gets put on a queue, how do I flush this queue so the most recent command is the only command processed? ...

Regarding VideoDisplay in flex 3

Hi, I have a canvas which contains some flags(each flag is a canvas),when we click on that flag a corresponding video must play.I have used VideoDisplay tag and its working fine.But my question here is when we click on any place except on the player the video player should close. Thanks & Regards, Prasanth ...

FLEX, VideoDisplay: how to autoload without autorunning

I'm using videoDisplay MXML component for my Flex app. I would like to autoload videos (in order to display the first frame) without automatically run them. What's the easiest way to do it ? thanks ...

Progress-bar (Video Preloader)

I have a spark component VideoDisplay which displays a video. I want to add a ProgressBar to it which will show load progress of the video and when the video is loaded ProgressBar to disappear. How to do that? Thanks, ...

VideoDisplay cannot load local flv files

I have noticed that I have to put flv files in the same or sub-directories of the application file, for example myproject/bin-debug/flvs/1.flv, and use videodisplay.source="flvs/1.flv" to load. If I put it in myproject/flvs/1.flv, I cannot load it in VideoDisplay, using videodisplay.source="../flvs/1.flv". However the metadata (duratio...