Okay, well I have decided to get away from the netstream way of things (appears to have a large server load when it is running) and go towards the FLVplayback, which I believe (correct me if I am wrong here) downloads the movie, and buffers it at the same time; making the process run smoother.
The only problem is that so far the only flash version that is working to even peview with the simple thing I have so far is in flash 6. I want to use flash 8 for all my applications… I understnad that you can import libraries from previous flash versions, however the closest thing that I have found is
import mx.video.*;
and it doesn’t work (at least for me).
What I am eventually going for is something like what youtube, or google videos has for the FLV player, something that will work with multiple video types, instead of just FLV (which is what netstream supports). But, as I said earlier I want to be able to have the user download the full video before it starts, or at least be able to see how much of the video is downloaded and not need to re-buffer it when the seek to a different section(assuming they have already watched over that section); like what youtube has.
Here is the current thing I have (in flash 8 not working form):
[COLOR=#0000ff]http://www.reigninggames.com/tests/vids/text_video_UI.fla[/COLOR]
Thanks for any and all help,
BetaWar