StageVideo in Flash Professional

Report · May 14, 2013

I'm currently most of the way through creating a very simple iPad app (childrens storybook) that uses large segments of video and interactive buttons/puzzles.

Currently all of this video is embedded in the timeline and is in flv (on2 vp6), however there are a lot of reccomendations for StageVideo - and the current flvs i'm using don't run that well at all. I'd like to take advantage of the hardware acceleration but I don't really know how to get started with StageVideo, all the tutorials/help online is for flash builder.

Is there a way to run StageVideo easily in flash professional? and if so can it be synced/interact with the timeline or will I need to switch to using code? The app being mostly animation/video the timeline is much easier to work with than learning to code everything fully - I've been using flash for years but have never strayed outside simple buttons/interactivity and I don't know how complex including StageVideo would be so I'd just like to know if it's something to keep exploring for iOS, it would be nice to have better quality video than the on2 vp6 can provide without lagging.

Thanks for any help/advice.

Report · May 15, 2013

There is a SimpleStageVideo class from Thibault Imbert.

This should get you started.

Report · May 16, 2013

Hi,

Thanks for the help. However there aren't many instructions on that site, and I'm not entirely sure how to use the code. I used an example StageVideo code before, and managed to get it to work, both on the computer and on iOS but the problem is getting it to work with a flash professional project.

Once i've created a playing file with StageVideo any other control I have seems to have to be done with code - I would like to use the timeline for most of the project but just be able to place StageVideo supported files within this, being able to call a video on a specific frame, adding simple button on the stage over the video etc.

Is this kind of thing possible with SimpleStageVideo or even with standard StageVideo?

Report · May 16, 2013

The video data must not be embedded in the SWF file. StageVideo can be used only with videos originating from a NetStream object.

Found here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/stage_video.html