Comments on: New Adobe video component for Flex

By: Andrew Shorten

Andrew Shorten — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:50:16 +0000

Joeflash – I think it is fair to say that it is compatible, but I completely agree that we need to do more and make this a first-class component within the Flex framework. Hopefully the team will have time to do that work as part of the Flex Gumbo release.

By: Joeflash

Joeflash — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:37:01 +0000

I think that claiming that this version of the FLVPlayback component is Flex-compatible is a bit of a misnomer, if not a borderline falsehood. Since you cannot instantiate the component directly in Flex, but need to wrap it in a UIComponent and instantiate it dynamically, versus instantiating it in MXML (because it does not implement the IMXMLObject interface and others), means that it is not wholly compatible with Flex, and requires a hack to implement it. How different is the code above than this implementation of the Flash CS3 or Flash CS4 FLVPlayback component in Flex? I think Adobe needs to be clear: the featureset has been improved for Flash 10 compatibility, but a Flex-compatible video component it is not.

By: jaia

jaia — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:46:09 +0000

Hi, Never did find the reasons why I had 1119 problems – but the code on Stefan’s post worked for me. Yay!! (Actually I’d already built my own by then… but hey! solved – should anyone else encounter such weirdness.)

By: CmlCPT

CmlCPT — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:08:26 +0000

Jaia,
I was getting the same type of errors, what eventually fixed it is under properties/flex compiler/html wrapper require flash player version must be 10.0.0. Also the above code needed the following to render in IE7: video.width = 480;

By: Andrew Shorten

Andrew Shorten — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:58:10 +0000

Jaia – not quite sure what is going on there. One suggestion, based on an experience one of my colleagues was having – try looking for the mm.cfg file on your system and deleting it. There can sometimes be issues when that file gets corrupted and it can cause problems in both Flex Builder and Flash Professional.

By: jaia

jaia — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:24:39 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Yup, 3.2. I don’t understand it – though I have read of some bugs logged for a similar error under both 3.1 and Gumbo. And a few mystified posts saying that the error suddenly simply vanished… Plus on Flexcoders a few people have spoken about strange behaviour with UIComponent… Or maybe there is something up with my configuration? Hmm… what now? Do you have any expert tips on how I might be able to discover more supporting evidence about what is going on?

By: Andrew Shorten

Andrew Shorten — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:31:29 +0000

Jaia – are you definately using Flex SDK 3.2? Check under Properties > Flex Compiler to verify the version you’re using. It’s definately working OK for me with Flex SDK 3.2, Flash Player 10 and strict typing enabled.

By: Andrew Shorten

Andrew Shorten — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:28:07 +0000

Bjorn – I agree that there is room for improvement, although I think the first priority was getting something that worked for both Flash Professional and Flex. Given that we’re currently working on Gumbo, I’m hopeful that we’ll have an opportunity to provide an enhanced Flex component that builds on the work done here to provide a full MXML-compatible implementation.

If I get any more information from the product team I’ll post it here.

By: jaia

jaia — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:35:35 +0000

Further to my last post, I am definitely using FlashPlayer 10. The errors go away in Flex if I turn off strict typing – but then I get a #1056 error in Flash Player. It seems as if the 1119 errors are claiming that the source, skin, skinBackgroundColor and skinAutoHide properties of FLVPlayback don’t exist. Is thsi something to do with strangeness in the UIComponent?

By: Bjorn Schultheiss

Bjorn Schultheiss — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:01:37 +0000

Would it not be difficult to write a wrapper so that i can be used with mxml?

Its pretty lame Adobe hasn’t released a version for its flex devs and expects us to be happy using that ugly script block.

excuse me for the rant ; )