Flash Speaks Actionscript

The JW Desktop Player uses the Adobe AIR Framework to playback FLV, MP3 and MP4 files on your MAC or PC.  JW Desktop Player allows you to playback a video by simply dropping it on top of the display.

Also, if you are curious as to what is under the hood of this Adobe AIR Application, source code is available for your eyes to see.

Additional Resources:

• Download and install JW Desktop Player
• Download the full source code

FX Video is an open source video player built with Flex. The FX Video control lets you play an FLV file in a Flex application. It also supports progressive download over HTTP, streaming from the Flash Media Server, and streaming from a Camera object.

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AFC Announces All 14 Actionscript 2.0 Components as FREE!

This a very impressive list of Flash components. The original value of all of these combined are over $310. As of today, you can find them all free at Advanced Flash Components. Enjoy these great tools and make sure to spread the word.

Also, don’t forget to thank the guys over at Advanced Flash Components for this great opportunity.

Flow List

Flow List Component loads external images and creates a 3D flow animation. Flexible API makes it easy to integrate this component into your web application.

Media List

The Media List component is an adaptable list that can be used as a navigation for a variety of media. It allows you to easily scroll to, and select items in the list, with a clear indication of which item is selected.

Tooltip

Tooltip Component is the perfect tool for displaying text and image tool tips in Flash. Enhanced functionality, easy to use interface and scalability makes this component a valuable tool for every flash developer.

IMG Loop

IMG Loop Flash Component creates continuous image scroll. Component supports XML, RSS 2.0 as well as direct data input. All of the component properties can be modified to seamlessly integrate with your project.

FLV Player

The FLV Player component provides standard user interface controls (play, pause, stop, etc) for Flash video playback.

Map

Map Component displays geographical locations and polylines, allowing for easy map navigation. Component uses Equidistant Cylindrical Map Projection and Longitude and Latitude position data to display location points.

MP3 Player

Easily load and play MP3 files inside Flash using MP3 Simple Player component. Player supports XML and RSS 2.0 Podcast Feeds.

IMG Gallery

IMG Gallery Flash component is a fully customizable and scalable tool for displaying dynamic slide shows. Component supports XML, RSS 2.0 as well as direct data input.

IMG Thumbnail Gallery

IMG Thumbnail Gallery Flash component is a fully customizable and scalable tool for displaying dynamic slide shows. Component supports XML, RSS 2.0 as well as direct data input.

FLV Gallery

FLV Gallery Flash Component is a perfect solution for playback of multiple flash video files and can be easily integrated within any flash application. FLV Gallery supports XML and RSS 2.0 feeds and is fully customizable through component properties.

FLV List Gallery

FLV List Gallery Flash Component combines extensible functionality and easy to use user interface for multiple flash video files playback. FLV List Gallery supports XML and RSS 2.0 feeds and is fully customizable through component properties.

IMG Loader Blur, IMG Loader Pixelate, IMG Loader Tint

The IMG Loader component is a container that can display external image files (JPEG/GIF/PNG but not progressive JPEG files) with Flash 8 Blur Transition, Flash 8 Pixelate Transition, and Flash 8 Tint Transition; respectively.

Source: Advanced Flash Components

Using Adobe AIR to Save YouTube Videos onto Hard Drive

Here is a neat little AIR application that helps in easily saving your favorite YouTube video onto your hard drive. This AIR application is called FLVPlay. While it’s name is a bit off target, it is a nice tool that I would like to see evolve as YouTube releases it API to the public.

The FLVPlay is a non-commercial, conceptual AIR application, intended to simplify the video transfers from YouTube to computers and mobile devices like iPhone, iPod, smartphones. It provides the functionality to download videos onto PC, MAC or Linux and transfer them to the device later on, so the device’s bandwidth is not used later to stream videos. Other functionality is a video playback. It has been built with Adobe AIR and Papervision3D.

Source: Flex.org/showcase
Creator: Robert Jesionek
Check It Out For Yourself!

For those of you looking for a great FLV Video Player for your desktop computer, Sothink’s free FLV Player has been updated with some new, cool features.

• Play FLV directly through its URL using command-line parameters.
• Double click to toggle full screen mode
• Show a preloader animation at buffered time until start playing Flash video
• Drag and drop any *.flv file from local hard disk into the FLV player window

Overall, if you are looking for a solid FLV player, I would definitely recommend this app.

via Sothink Media