The Flash FLVPlayer component
April 12th, 2007 by 
Jaap Kooiker
Today a miracle has happened. I worked with a standard flash component namely, the FLVPlayer component in Flash Professional 8 and I must say I’m convinced!
In the past I never used the flash components from flash. Why? Because using the standard components resulted in large swf files, wich I don’t want if it doesn’t have to. So I write my own components from scratch, this works perfect for me because I could make them how I want in concept of design and functionality.
The way I see it, the flash components are a bit overdone. My custom made components result in much, much, smaller filesizes.
At the place where I work we created a class for use with the video_display, and used that many times. Some while ago I checked out the FLVPlayer component and realized this one was very good. Altough the compiled swf is (only with the flvplayer) about 42 kb, I think this doesn’t matter. The flv’s played with it are generally much larger in filesize wich results in more data transfer. So… And now, for the first time…. I’ll use a standard Flash component!
Today I actually used the component in a project. I must say, with the standard FLVPlayback Custom UI components, making a flv player has never been easier. Just put them on stage, customize the appearance and assign them via actionscript. If you are just like me, making your own components, thumbs up. You must know, although I used this component I won’t be using them all. I still rather use my own customizable, skinnable, whateverable components.
Jaap Kooiker
Posted in Actionscript 2.0, Did you know?, Flash 8, Flash Video | 
April 13th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Right you are, I’ve always slightly looked down on the Flash components set, mainly because the reasons you mentioned. The FLVPlayer component however is easy in usage and isn’t bloated with unwanted stuff..
April 13th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Ruben,
I’m glad I’m not one of the few who uses this Flash player component :)
Thanx for the comment!