Flv playback client side bandwidth detection? FMS 3

Hi SE,

Thanks for your link - I appreciate you providing it. It does not help me with what I am trying to do. I am going to provide this code snippet to provide an example of what I have got working using the video component with NetConnection and NetStream.

Here are a few lines of this *code extracted below that I would like to point out. I am able to determine the clients bandwidth and write the bandwidth with p_event.bandwidth. I would really like to be able to do this using a FLV playback component - not the video component.

        // Event handler for Bandwidth event
         private function _onBandwidthReceived( p_event:BandwidthEvent ):void
         {
             log( "Now we know our bandwidth!" );
             log( "Bandwidth: " + p_event.bandwidth );
         }

#START CODE SNIPPET#

package com.bitratesample.document
{
    import com.bitratesample.event.BandwidthEvent;
    import com.bitratesample.net.SimpleClient;
    import fl.controls.TextArea;
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.net.NetConnection;
    import flash.events.NetStatusEvent;
    import flash.events.SecurityErrorEvent;
    import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;

    public class BandwidthTest extends MovieClip
    {
        public var output_txt:TextArea;
       
        public var rtmpPath:String = "####";
       
        private var _client:SimpleClient;
        private var _nc:NetConnection;
       
        public function BandwidthTest()
        {
            // Create the client
            _client = new SimpleClient();
           
            // Add the listener for the bandwidth result
            _client.addEventListener( BandwidthEvent.BANDWIDTH_RECEIVED, _onBandwidthReceived );
           
            // Create our net connection
            _nc = new NetConnection();
           
            // set the client on the NetConnection
            _nc.client = _client;
           
            // Create our listeners for the NetConnection
            _nc.addEventListener( NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, _onNetStatus );
           
            // Connect
            _nc.connect( rtmpPath, true );
        }
       
        private function log( p_msg:String ):void
        {
            trace( p_msg );
            output_txt.appendText( p_msg + "\n" );
        }
       
       // Event handler for Bandwidth event
        private function _onBandwidthReceived( p_event:BandwidthEvent ):void
        {
            log( "Now we know our bandwidth!" );
            log( "Bandwidth: " + p_event.bandwidth );
        }
       
        private function _onNetStatus( p_event:NetStatusEvent ):void
        {
            log( "p_event.info.code: " + p_event.info.code );
            switch( p_event.info.code )
            {
                case "NetConnection.Connect.Success":
                {
                    log( "The connection attempt succeeded." );
                    break;
                }
                case "NetConnection.Connect.Rejected":
                {
                    log( "The connection attempt did not have permission to access the application." );
                    break;
                }
                case "NetConnection.Connect.Failed":
                {
                    trace( "The connection attempt failed." );
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
       
    }
   
}

#END CODE SNIPPET#

If I can get this to work using the FLV playback component, I would like to write out statements like  %this% for example (bear with me, I am just writing examples below, I  realize the syntax is not correct)

% START EXAMPLE STATEMENTS%

if (p_event.bandwidth <= 2,000)  {
    player.bufferTime = 30;

   player.load(SmallBirateAndSmallDimensionVideo.flv);

  } else if (p_event.bandwidth > 2,000 || p_event.bandwidth <= 6,000) {

    player.bufferTime = 15;

   player.load(MediumBirateAndMediumDimensionVideo.flv);
   }

  } else {

  player.bufferTime = 2;

  player.load(HighBirateAndHighDimensionVideo.flv);

}

% END EXAMPLE STATEMENTS%

Is there any way I can detect the clients bandwidth using client side action script 3 code.

I am using FMS 3.0.

I do not want to use the native bandwidth detection that comes with FMS 3.0

Thank you,

Brad