video.setMedia(”because i am girl.flv”, “FLV”);
video = _root.video;
//play button function
play_btn.onRelease = function() {
video.play();
};
//pause button function
pause_btn.onRelease = function() {
video.pause();
};
//fullscreen function
fullscreen_btn.onRelease = function() {
video.displayFull();
toggleFullScreen();
};

//rewind function, stop(0) can also be used.
rewind.onRelease = function() {
video.play(0);
};

//mute and unmute
mc_volume.onRelease = function() {
mc_volume.play();
};

//This part is for the fullscreen function
Stage.scaleMode=”Scale”;
Stage.align = “TC”; //T:top, C: center
function toggleFullScreen(){
if(Stage[”displayState”]==”normal”){
Stage[”displayState”]=”fullScreen”;
fullscreen_btn.gotoAndStop(2);
}else{
Stage[”displayState”]=”normal”;
fullscreen_btn.gotoAndStop(1);
}
}
video = _root.video;
mc_knob.onPress = function() {
mdown = true;
this.startDrag(false, 0, 0, mc_track._width, 0);
};
mc_knob.onRelease = function() {
mdown = false;
this.stopDrag();
};
mc_knob.onReleaseOutside = mc_knob.onRelease();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (mdown) {
dist = mc_knob._x;
pct = dist/mc_track._width;
newVol = pct*video.totalTime;
video.playheadTime = newVol;
} else {
dist = video.playheadTime;
pct = dist/video.totalTime;
newX = pct*mc_track._width;
mc_knob._x = newX;
}
};

Thanks for your note. That’s good thinking!

To Oscar …

If you check out the sample files from the “Building Stuff” chapter in Tom’s and my Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers, you’ll find a working AS3 example of what you’re after. The basic principle is the same, but as you can imagine, the syntax changes a bit. The sample files are here:

http://www.foundationflashcs4.com/sample-files.html

… and you’re looking for Chapter 14. Note the alternative URL, in case the server server chokes on you:

http://www.friendsofed.com/download.html?isbn=9781430210931

Great work here. I’ve recently hired on with a company using AS2 for eLearning content (I’m an AS3 guy by nature) and have introduced them to the idea of using progressive downloads rather than embedded video content in their swfs.

What a surprise I had when I found out that the FF and RW buttons on Flash’s default component skins (for a rapid prototype of the concept) don’t represent the functionality that their icons suggest!

Anyhow, found your blog post just in time here. Was having trouble using the flvplayback.time but you nailed that one on the head!

One tip - I was having an issue where the video would seek for a time after releasing the ff button. As a workaround, setting your interval to match your flvplayback.progressInterval smooths this out even, as you don’t have ‘backlogged’ seek events piling up.

Cheers and many thanks!
Chris

Have you tried this with h.264 video content?

Gosh, my reply is soooo late! I’m truly sorry, man. As it turns out, I have tried this with H.264 content, and the principle I described above works. (Tom Green and I included an AS3 version in our recent Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers [friends of ED], in the “Building Stuff” chapter.) The trick is to vary your timers until you find a looping speed that works with the framerate of your video — and that’s true even for non H.264 content.

To John …

I apologize to you, too, for such a tardy reply.

If I understand your question, you’re asking if it’s possible to play video content in reverse, right? If that’s it, then I’m afraid I haven’t been able to make that work … not anymore smoothly than the simulated rewind feature I described above.

To Zack …

Thanks!

To Will …

it seems everyone out there is so hung up on components!!

Heh, they are convenient, for sure! But there’s a price for everything.

I’m wondering can you explain how to do the above for embedded video?

The think about embedded (internal) video is that it ceases to act like a genuine video object, and the reason for that is because it gets laid out, for as many frames as necessary, inside a movie clip. At that point, it effectively becomes an instance of the MovieClip class. So to fast forward, you would use your timer to skip ahead in that video movie clip’s timeline by more than one frame at a time (see MovieClip.gotoAndPlay()). To rewind, you invoke that same method (or MovieClip.gotoAndStop()) and send the video’s movie clip timeline backwards.

Technically, this is doable … but you tend to lose considerable of accuracy because of variances between the video framerate and the FLA framerate. In addition, you can quickly run beyond the 16,000 frame limit in Flash if the video runs long. Consider a 24fps FLA with a 12-minute video. If the video is also 24fps, it needs 17,280 frames to play out (12 minutes is 720 seconds, times 24). I’ve also found that the audio of large and/or long videos eventually gets out of sync with the video. So unless your clips are relatively short, you may find yourself up the creek … not without a paddle, but with a poorly made paddle.

I’m wondering can you explain how to do the above for embedded video? - I have to deploy a stand-alone exe file and as am sure you know externally called flv and components will need to accompanied the exe, which of course defeats the whole purpose of creating a stand-alone exe file.

if you can point me in the direction where I can find the solution to the above issue or any help would be greatly appreciated.