How to access VideoPlayer.load() method that accepts 5 parameters?

[hobbes60622]

Please see my SO question here for details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17776642/flvplayback-videoplayer-how-to-access-videoplayer-load-m...

Basically, in CS4 (or CS6), I want to call the five-argument version of VideoPlayer.load() that is documented here: 

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/fl/video/VideoPlayer.html#load()    

But I keep getting errors along the lines of  "incorrect number of arguments."

Steps to reproduce:

• Start a new, blank FLA document (AS3).
• Drag an FLVPlayback component to the stage and name it vPlayer.
• Create a new layer and add Actionscript in frame 1:

  import fl.video.*;  
  var innerPlayer = vPlayer.getVideoPlayer(vPlayer.activeVideoPlayerIndex); 
  trace(innerPlayer); // "[object VideoPlayer]" appears in Output window  
  
  innerPlayer.load( "RTMP://..." , 
  0 // totalTime , 
  false // isLive , 
  60 // startTime , 
  10 // duration );

This should give me a ten-second clip starting from the one-minute mark, but I keep getting errors like

ArgumentError: Error #1063: Argument count mismatch on fl.video::VideoPlayer/load(). Expected 1, got 5.

[kglad]

that looks like a documentation error unless there was a player 9 version for which that was valid.  otherwise, it looks like it will accept the first 3 parameters.

use other videoplayer methods/properties/events to do what you want.

[hobbes60622]

kglad - Thanks for the reply. I would be pretty disappointed if the documentation has been wrong since CS4. Even in CS6 + Flash Player 11, the code doesn't work.

I looked at the documentation, and there don't seem to be any properties I can use to simulate startTime and duration.  Any suggestions?

[sinious]

FLVPlayback load supports a totalTime argument and if it's coming from a streaming server you can just seek instantly to any starting point you like.

[hobbes60622]

Ah.  One thing I should have mentioned is that I don't want the end user to know that there is more video beyond the start time and end time, and the ideal way is to make sure scrub tool doesn't show this.  

[kglad]

don't use a skin or, at least, don't use one with a playprogress bar.

[sinious]

Consider using the OSMF player too: http://osmf.org/