Depending on what you are doing, this could be a very bad idea. Loading an FLV is simple and easy. SWFs are very different, especially if it is outward facing, like people loading their own SWFs. What if the SWF wants its own controls? Will your wrapper/player assume a timeline-based playback only? If it's actionscript-based, how would you control it, or show progress? What if it's AS2, and you are loading it inside Flex? Will you maintain it to support newer versions of Flash later? What about FLVs embedded in the SWF timeline? Or Externally loaded FLVs from a SWF? I can think of dozens of reasons why this can become a nightmare trying to support infinite SWFs from your finite player.
It sounds like a good thing to do, and a easy request to make. But when it comes to implementation and support, you have some serious questions to ask yourself. That's why you're not getting responses to a simple, one-size-fits-all Flex component for controlling SWFs. I would not recommend creating a Flex app with a customer expectation that it will load and control any SWF they can throw at it. You may want to consider just loading video files, FLVs and h.264 It's easy to support and it sounds like that's what you're trying to do in the first place. -- Cole ----- Original Message ---- From: gmoniey22 <gmonie...@yahoo.com> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 7:34:31 PM Subject: [flexcoders] anyone know of a good (free) flex component for playing video/swfs? I'm looking for a simply (and reliable) flex component which can play a flv or a swf and has the basic controls (Play/Pause/Progress bar) Any suggestions? Thanks ------------------------------------ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
