Understanding Your Thumbnail Options The greatest hurdle in adapting this application for progressive streaming is creating the thumbnails. Flash Communication Server gives you a very simple way to create thumbnails,...
Behavior 5: Toggle AutoSize The Toggle AutoSize behavior allows you to add code to a button so that it toggles the component's autosize property between True and False. The following...
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-down video object, and pause the video on...
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 pause when a video is running in...
Creating JPEG Thumbnails A more bandwidth-conscious way of displaying thumbnails is to create scaled-down JPEG files for each video file. You have several options for creating them; you can: ...
Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Streaming Flash Video As developers, we are often bogged down with mundane tasks such as site maintenance and updates. If we want to pass these...
Changing the NetStream Code You have to makeonly one simple change to the VideoSourcePro.as ActionScript to convert it from streaming to progressive download: 14 nc.connect( null );...
Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Progressive Flash Video There's been a strong outcry for an article demonstrating an XML-driven playlist that does not require Macromedia Flash Communication Server. You wanted...
Using File Object for Video on Demand and MP3 Playback Flash Media Server 2 offers a unique combination of traditional streaming media capabilities and a flexible development environment for creating...
Exploring the Video Player Interface This section explains the structure of the finished player and walks you through creating the interface. You also create a very simple custom component that...
Setting Up Your Environment To follow this code walkthrough, you will need on_demand_player.zip, the sample file download that accompanies this article. Here's what you should do with the contents of...
Setting Up Flash Media Server This article assumes that you are running Flash Media Server locally, but the application setup would be the same if you were using a remote...