# FLV player component - preview

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flv-player-component-preview/232206>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 11, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flv-player-component-preview/232206 "2007-07-11T21:59:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![tevih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@tevih](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tevih)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flv-player-component-preview/232206/1 "2007-07-11T21:59:37Z")

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Hello,

I am somewhat new to actionscripting and I couldn’t find anything about this in the CS3 forum. I am trying to add a preview image to an FLV player component. The code that I have is not working.

```auto

package {
    import fl.video.FLVPlayback;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    public class FLVPlaybackExample extends Sprite {

        private var videoPath:String = "/video_promo/LP_Movie512K.flv";
        private var previewImage:String = "/video_promo/preview_image.png";
        
        public function FLVPlaybackExample() {

            player.preview = previewImage;
            player.source = videoPath;
            player.skinBackgroundColor = 0x93ABD2;
            player.skinBackgroundAlpha = 0.9;
        }

    }
}

```

What am I doing wrong here? The video loads fine, and both the video and the preview image are in the same directory. I took the initial code from the help documentation example code (hence, “FLVPlaybackExample”). I added in the lines calling for the preview which are not working.

It’s a bit annoying that nobody mentions how to do this, anywhere - even Flash developer center ([http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/flvplayback\_component/#section4](http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/flvplayback_component/#section4))

I’m really confused as to how to add _any_ parameters for the FLV player component, so if anyone can explain in general terms what I’m doing wrong here, I’d appreciate it.

Thanks so much!