I’m building a site that will stream audio and video recordings in a custom Flash 9 media player.
The recordings will stream in a pop-up window. However, I would like to display some info about the currently playing recording in the main browser window (title, time elapsed, etc.) and also provide a play/pause button. Basically like embedding a “remote control” for the pop-up in the main page.
The most obvious choice to accomplish this seems to be local connection. Having never used local connection before, I’m hoping someone with a little experience with it can quell a couple of my concerns; specifically:
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[]Is LocalConnection brittle? (i.e. cross-browser issues, buggy, etc.)
[]While using the player, will the user experience side effects if navigating to another site that uses local connection?
[*]As LocalConnection has been around since Flash 6, is there now a better method to facilitate communication between the remote SWF and the player SWF?
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