Creating a Flash Video Player

The tutorial will cover the following topics:

Creating a video object and using it to load a FLV file
Controlling playback with buttons
Displaying the elapsed time
Loading a list of videos from an XML document
Loading a video dynamically from a drop down list

You’ll learn how to create a video object and how to connect it so that you can stream content from an external file. You’ll also learn how to load content from an XML document that populates a ComboBox component.

You can download the resources for this tutorial from the blue Properties box that contains the article PDF. There's a heading titled Code Download and you can click the Details link next to it to get the zip file.

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Sas Jacobs

Sas Jacobs Hello. I'm the Principal of Anything Is Possible, an Australian web development business specialising in web applications development and training. I'm interested in using Flash with dynamic content and I've presented at a number of International conferences on topics relating to applications development, XML and scripting components. I have recently released my second print book Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax to match the first one - Foundation XML for Flash. I have a business web site
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Reviews

Great tutorial

March 21, 2007 by Kielen King

This was easy to follow and provided a great example for me to get started with a project that will require me to edit the code/xml option further. I really like having information that gives me enough detail that I can make my own adaptations without totally ruining the "working/functioning" version. However, there is a typo in the PDF: Pg. 6 (Populating the ComboBox section) reads: for (var i:Number=0;i

Not working

March 30, 2007 by Mike Kliem

I know this is cheap but I cannot get thisd code to work..

Script and example missing something major

June 25, 2007 by Fil S

I was excited to try this tutorial, bought it - but disappointed as it didn't come close to working. and as much as the process is listed, something must be missing.

What's missing? Anyone have info on getting this to work? Perhaps the author?

RE: Great tutorial

August 1, 2007 by Bill Patterson

Can you send me the fixes that make this work? I do not need more frustrations with action script.

Thanks..send to bill1229@wwmgmt.com

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