So after about 400 lines of code writing my own video player, I decided to scrap it. We were having some serious issues with NetConnection and the video only working half the time. I spent way too much time debugging and finally had enough.

The component took 8 lines of code to get working…

Skinning is the same as it was in Flash 8, which is kind of dissapointing considering what an amazing job gskinner.com did with the skinning of all of the other components. I don’t know what Adobe was thinking, not letting them take a crack at the video player as well. Oh well, at least we have a mostly functional video player now..

http://www.jarringsenses.com/courses/nmtp/mediapane/MediaPaneComponent.html

Here’s a nice update to the MediaPane. Lots of bug fixes after an impromptu usbility test, plus every image preloads properly. I’ll keep the bugsquashing coming…

http://www.jarringsenses.com/courses/nmtp/mediapane/MediaPanePrototypePreloader.html