I’ve just uploaded another new episode in the “Developing with Flash Lite” series – “Building a Flash Mobile Video Player (Part 1)“. This episode covers loading in external FLV video into a Flash Lite 3 application, plus controlling the playback and volume.
Building a Flash Mobile Video Player (Part 1) from Adobe Flash Lite on Vimeo.
I’ll be uploading the second part next week, which covers creating a play-head and progress bar, playing back at full-screen and also accessing meta data from the FLV video.
Thanks Dale, this is good stuff. I’m about to watch Part 2, now.
Hi Dale,
Is there any chance, you could make the .fla files available for download? I followed your tutorial, but must have done something incorrectly or not completely because the player does not want to work for me. I am not an expert with flash, but would really want to use it and learn it for mobile development. I am using your examples and tutorials to learn flash for mobile.
Thank you,
Robert
Hey Robert, I’m in the process of uploading all the source files for these videos and making them available to viewers. Hold tight and stay tuned
Thank you.
After seeing your tutorials and following them, I’ve gotten very inspired and have ordered Nokia XpressMusic 5800, which I hope to use for testing Flash Lite 3.1.
If you think, you will take longer to upload the .fla files for Part1 and Part2, would you mind emailing them to me at wgt3001@yahoo.com?
You are probably the first one with such tutorial. You may become as popular as the guy who first wrote about wml in around yr.2000. His name was Luca Passani. A year later he moved to the US to work for Phone.com because he had become very famous due to his tutorial article. I wish you good luck too.
I am an old veteran in programming for mobile devices (since 2000), but haven’t done much with flash and nothing with Action Script. I am hoping to change that now and your tutorials are giving me the base to build on.
Thank you,
Robert.
Thanks Robert, not sure about becoming famous, but I’m glad they’ve been of value to you. Don’t forget you’ll have to update your 5800 with FL3.1 through the App Update feature on the device. Source files coming shortly.
Thank you for the tip on FL update. I will be checking your blog for the source files.
Robert.
Hi Dale,
I’ve been checking your blog every day for the source code without luck so far. I’m losing any hope. Is there any chance that you could email it to me?
By the way, I got Nokia XpressMusic 5800, but I will send it back. N97 has everything that XpressMusic 5800 has except that the screen is larger and you get the keyboard. I will keep N97. Nokia needs to do a better job with the touch screen if they want to compete with iPhone. iPhone is nice, but does not have as good functionality as Nokia N97. That is my opinon about the recent phones.
Thank you,
Robert.
Oops, sorry. I’ve found the .zip files.
Thank you.
It will be a lot of fun running and testing it tomorrow….
Hi Dale,
What needs to be changed for the player to do streaming via RTMP? It would be nice to do that.
Robert.
All you need to do is change a couple of things. Firstly, where you call the
connect()method on theNetConnection, instead of passing innull, you pass in the RTMP URL. For example,nc.connect("rtmp://streamingServer/streamName");Then just remove the URL from the
ns.playcall later on in the code.Thank you. I have tried the changes, but it doesn’t work. Is there anything else to change?
In my test, I used the same movie from your demo on FMS. It streams via RTMP using regular web flash player, so the connection to streaming server and flash video are fine.
Hi Dale,
I’ve tried many different things including your suggestions and still can’t get it to work. There has to be something more to change. Have you tested with it RTMP stream?
Thank you,
Robert
Robert, I emailed you a few days ago so we can take this off-blog and try and work out what is going on. Please email me your FLA file including the streaming server you’re trying to connect to – dale@moket.com