Programming Flash Communication Server

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Summary of Communication Components

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VideoPlayback

The VideoPlayback component provides a quick user interface to play back recorded

streams that reside in a FlashCom application. You can play streams recorded by

FlashCom from a user’s web cam, or you can play .flv files that you created from

Macromedia’s FLV Exporter tool or a third-party utility, such as Sorenson Squeeze

or Wildform Flix. The VideoPlayback component includes a control bar, as shown in

Figure 2-16. You can play, pause, and seek the stream, as well as control its volume.

The edges of the video are masked by rounded corners.

Nested Flash UI components

This component does not use any Flash UI components. If you wish to change the

appearance of this component, you can modify the graphics found in the Communi-

cation Components

➝ Core Assets - Developer Only ➝ VideoPlayback Assets folder

of your Flash document’s Library.

Client-side component parameters

The VideoPlayback component has two settings that can be modified in the Proper-

ties panel or the Component Parameters panel:

Default Stream Name

This parameter, corresponding to the

streamName property, specifies the name of

the stream to play from the FlashCom application. You do not need to include

the .flv extension in the stream name. For example, if you want to play a file

named recording.flv that is stored in the application’s streams/_definst_ folder,

specify

recording in this field in the Properties panel. If you have created a vir-

tual directory to store streams on your FlashCom Server, you can specify the

alias name in front of the stream’s name. For example, if you created an alias

Figure 2-16. The runtime look of the VideoPlayback component