Chapter 9. Building a Video Index and Playlist

After you’ve created Flash files that can load video files, using your own custom NetStream code or using FLVPlayback components, you’re ready to tackle user interfaces that control more advanced video functionality. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to read embedded cue points from an FLV file, display cue points in labeled buttons, and load XML playlists to cycle multiple video files.

Making a Marker Index for Video

If you encoded an FLV file with embedded cue points, you can use ActionScript to retrieve all the cue point information you specified during the encoding process. Navigation cue points provide data values that enable the FLVPlayback component to seek to specific times in an FLV file. In ...

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