Quick and easy flv player/selector

programming flash
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first, hello to everyone here i have been lurking here for a few weeks now learning some good stuff so here’s a small contribution in return. :smiley:

it’s basically a simple way to load different flv files, i found a couple of ready made files that were great but over complicated so i knocked up something simple.

first, the ‘finished’ product and source:

http://algorythm.co.uk/design/vplayer/

http://algorythm.co.uk/design/vplayer/player.zip

http://algorythm.co.uk/design/index.php?path=vplayer/

the flv player is the FLVPlayback component from Flash 8, it uses the Blue Plastic Skin from theflashblog:

http://theflashblog.com/?p=122

the bubbles flv videos are created with this after fx tutorial :wink:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flashvideoloops.htm

method:

on the stage i dropped the FLVPlayback component in place and set my own prefs for it. i left contentPath unset. i named the instance theVideo.

i then created a button and dragged two instances on to the stage and named the instances video_button1 and video_button2.

the actionscript placed in frame 1:


// load video 1 by default
	theVideo.contentPath = "bubbles.flv";

// video 1
video_button1.onPress = function() {
	playVideo1();
};
function playVideo1() {
	theVideo.contentPath = "bubbles.flv";
}
// video 2
video_button2.onPress = function() {
	playVideo2();
};
function playVideo2() {
	theVideo.contentPath = "bubbles1.flv";
}

i believe making the button presses into functions is the best way to do this, so the functions can be called by other methods if need be for example:

if (someObject == "video1") {
playVideo1();
} 
else if (someOther == "video2") {
playVideo2();
}

hope that helps some oneout :slight_smile: comments/additions welcome!