User Guide

506 FLVPlayback Component (Flash Professional Only)
The FLVPlayback component includes the FLV Playback Custom UI components. The
FLVPlayback component is a combination of the display area, or video player, in which you
view the FLV file and the controls that allow you to operate it. The FLV Playback Custom UI
components provide control buttons and mechanisms that you can use to play, stop, pause,
and otherwise control the FLV file. These controls include the BackButton, BufferingBar,
ForwardButton, MuteButton, PauseButton, PlayButton, PlayPauseButton, SeekBar,
StopButton, and VolumeBar. The FLVPlayback component and the FLV Playback Custom
UI controls appear in the Components panel, as shown in the following figure:
The process of adding playback controls to the FLVPlayback component is called skinning.
The FLVPlayback component has an initial default skin, ClearOverPlaySeekMute.swf, that
provides transparent controls for the play, seek, and mute functions. To change this skin, you
have the following choices:
■ Select from an collection of predesigned skins
■ Select individual controls from the FLV Playback Custom UI components and
customize them
■ Create a custom skin and add it to the collection of predesigned skins
After you select a different skin, the selected skin becomes the new default skin.
For more information about selecting or creating a skin for the FLVPlayback component, see
“Customizing the FLVPlayback component” on page 524.