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VideoDisplay Improvements

// April 3rd, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, Programming

VideoDisplay has no doubt been the source of many headaches and much wasted time for any developer that has touched it. A lot has been written about it, and here’s my contribution, which is an evolutionary improvement over others’ work. It’s a fix that adds video smoothing and a source propert setter that doesn’t break the component and still allow you to set autoPlay. (This will all make sense in a minute.)

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A Note on VideoDisplay in Flex

// March 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // Actionscript 3, AIR, Flash, Flex, Programming

I just wasted an hour trying to track down the cause of a VideoDisplay-related bug, and I’m posting the very simple solution here to hopefully save one or two people (including future Daniel) some headaches.

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Customizing FLVPlayback

// March 3rd, 2009 // 19 Comments » // Actionscript 3, Flash

Here’s a quick tutorial showing you how to beef up FLVPlayback’s SeekBar, adding in a play progress bar and a full-bar hit area to make scrubbing quite a lot easier than finding that little tiny arrow Adobe seems to think is enough.

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SWFAddress

// May 11th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Actionscript 3, Flash, Programming

Holy sweet jesus deep linking is easy with SWFAddress. It’s criminal that all Flash sites don’t implement it.