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January 22, 2007
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Creating a 'high-def' AV Component

  • January 22, 2007
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I'm working on a virtual classroom videochat application for Communication Server MX. I'm about 4 days into my experience with Flash Comm and I'm not very far along.

The application calls for four small live video spots for the professors who are presenting and on larger video spot for the classroom camera. I've tried doing this using Flash MX' AVPresence component linked to the simple connect component. This setup works but gives end-users horrible video quality.

I've read around and found that the problem is that I am essentialy stretching the video by specifying a larger size than the default at that is the source of the distortion and pixelation. I also found many people who suggested that the solution was to build a custom video component that allows enlarging the feed.

So far I can't find any sort of guide that suggests I can do this or explains how. I've got pages of documentation but I don't know enough about the stuff to sort out where to start piecing together this component.

Can anyone give me or direct me to some good resources or tutorials for creating a higher resolution video component?
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    January 22, 2007
    Along with making the video object larger, you also have to tell the camera what resolution to capture at (I think the default is 160x120).

    Look in the docs for the camera class, specifically the setMode() method. Once you change the camera image dimensions to match the size of your video object, the picture will clear up.