Comments on: How to build a Flash Actionscript 3.0 Videoplayer

By: Gys

Gys — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:11:55 +0000

SOLUTION for hiding Controls + dynamic txtfiled with time:

mcVideoControls.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, showHideControls);
mcVideoControls.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, showHideControls);

function showHideControls(e:MouseEvent):void {
if(e.type == MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER)
{mcVideoControls.alpha = 1;
// hiding the textfield: no alpha allowed
mcVideoControls.lblTimeDuration.visible = true;}

else
{mcVideoControls.alpha = 0;
mcVideoControls.lblTimeDuration.visible = false;}
}

By: Dean Mellis

Dean Mellis — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:16:43 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial. There aren’t many out there that don’t use components. I don’t use those playback components since one of the main benefits of using Flash is customization.

Just one tip though: When coding it’s always best practice to avoid hard coding numbers. If this file is to be passed on to others or reused time and time again, those parameters for the scrubbers should not be hard coded numbers. They should be dynamic expressions based on the original and current positions of your video controls.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 16 May 2010 05:56:50 +0000

Thank you so much for this. This saved me so much research time. I can’t thank you enough!

By: Don9of11

Don9of11 — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:16:52 +0000

I need to make the video player larger. When I do the controls get stretched out. Do I need to remake the controls to fit the video player?

By: Janis

Janis — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:10:14 +0000

@ alfonse
i found a way to solve this problem. it is certainly not the best solution but it works :

just cut the movieclip with your progressBar out of the “Videocontrols-Movieclip/Layer” and past it into a new layer in your root directory. now you should have the Videocontrols Layer and the progressBar layer in your root directory.

greetings