# Anyone ever use FLVPlayback.preview (successfully)?

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**Created:** [October 6, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-ever-use-flvplayback-preview-successfully/272593 "2008-10-06T21:23:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-ever-use-flvplayback-preview-successfully/272593/1 "2008-10-06T21:23:14Z")

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I’m building an flv player with a list of videos and i want to load a preview image for each video.

FLVPlayback.preview seems like it would fit the bill but alas like many of Adobe’s ‘helpful’ utility methods and classes, it doesn’t work.

I just wanted to see if anyone had ever tried to use it and had any success.

FYI preview accepts a string [write-only] and I get no errors if i pass it a numeric string (for position of the thumb) or a url. It just sits there like a bump on a log.