Chapter 9. Use Flash Video

Video is one of the most popular trends on the Web, and Flash offers truly unmatched video capabilities. Many of the most well-known sites offering video use the Flash Player for delivery because of the compression available in the Flash Video (FLV) format, the flexibility of playback controls, and the ability to synch events in a Flash movie with points in the video files.

In this chapter you’ll learn to:

Use Flash Video

Video Playback Area

Our video will display in a “video screen” area made visible with the click of a button. Before we import the video, we’ll lay out the video screen and set up the button interaction.

Place the instance ...

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