User Guide

32 Client-Side ActionScript Language Reference

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Method; specifies whether to use a compressed video stream for a local view of the camera.

This method is generally applicable only if you are transmitting video using the Flash Media

Server; setting

compressLocalStream to true lets you see more precisely how the video will

appear to users when they view it in real time.

Although a compressed stream is useful for testing purposes, such as previewing video quality

settings, it has a significant processing cost, because the local view is not simply compressed; it

is compressed, edited for transmission as it would be over a live connection, and then

decompressed for local viewing.

To set the amount of compression used when you set

compressLocalStream to true, use

Camera.setQuality().

Example

In the following example, if the user presses a loopback button, the loopback value is set to

true:

on (press) {

if (_root.active_cam.loopback==false) {

_root.active_cam.setLoopback(true);

} else {

debugWindow+="You're already compressing the stream." + newline;

}