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Video.attachVideo()

Availability

Flash Player 6; the ability to work with Flash Video (FLV) files was added in Flash Player 7.

Usage

my_video.attachVideo(source:Object) : Void

Parameters

source

A Camera object that is capturing video data or a NetStream object. To drop the

connection to the Video object, pass

null for source.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Method; specifies a video stream (source) to be displayed within the boundaries of the Video

object on the Stage. The video stream is either an FLV file being displayed by means of the

NetStream.play() command, a Camera object, or null. If source is null, video is no longer

played within the Video object.

You don’t have to use this method if the FLV file contains only audio; the audio portion of an

FLV files is played automatically when the

NetStream.play() command is issued.

If you want to control the audio associated with an FLV file, you can use

MovieClip.attachAudio() to route the audio to a movie clip; you can then create a Sound

object to control some aspects of the audio. For more information, see

MovieClip.attachAudio().

Example

The following example plays live video locally:

var my_video:Video; //my_video is a Video object on the Stage

var active_cam:Camera = Camera.get();

my_video.attachVideo(active_cam);

The following example plays a previously recorded file named myVideo.flv that is stored in the

same directory as the SWF file.

var my_video:Video; // my_video is a Video object on the Stage

var my_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();

my_nc.connect(null);

var my_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(my_nc);

my_video.attachVideo(my_ns);

my_ns.play("video1.flv");