Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Introducing SimpleStageVideo

Introducing SimpleStageVideo:

SimpleStageVideoIf you played with Stage Video, one of the coolest feature of Flash Player 10.2. You may have noticed that this it requires a little bit of code to be leveraged and you have to deal with multiple events (StageVideoEvent, StageVideoAvailability, VideoEvent) to be used properly. While writing the Stage Video article for the Adobe devnet I realized that the need of a wrapper would be useful for developers, and a few days ago I came across StageVideoProxy by Kenny Bunch which is intended to simplify the use of Stage Video. This confirmed the idea that AS3 developers will need little wrappers for Stage Video, I know Tinic has his own version too for his tests.

Here is my version a little bit different, which should handle all the situations, switching automatically from Video to StageVideo and vice versa when Stage Video becomes available or unavailable. It handles all this automatically so you do not have to worry about it. It also handles something I ALWAYS need in my video players, respecting the video ratio when giving a specific maximum width and height to fit a specific surface to display the video :

To use, it is very simple, just use a few lines code [...]

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