README.md

Lightweight Flash object with a Javascript API. Used to play audio and video files on Firefox at Zeega (http://www.zeega.org) and Sensate (http://sensatejournal.com/).

Features

• video formats supported: mp4, m4v
• audio formats supported: mp3
• start and end time are configurable

Known issues

• seeking on MP4 files is dependent on the number of key frames included in the file

Components

• MediaPlayer

  • Extends Sprite
  • Main class. Instantiates and controls both the video and the audio players. Exposes an API in Javascript.

• VideoPlayer extends Sprite, implements IPlayer

  • Extends Sprite, Implements IPlayer
  • Video player.

• AudioPlayer extends Sprite, implements IPlayer

  • MP3 player.

Event codes

• onLoading

  • 1 : Player Loaded
  • 2 : Metadata Loaded
  • 3 : Video (Audio) CanPlay (at cue-in)

• onStateChange

  • 1 : Play begun
  • 2 : Paused
  • 3 : Stopped
  • 5 : on Time Change (every 500ms)
  • 4 : Video ended

• onError

  • 1 : Failed To Load Resource (user aborted, network interrupted, decoding error)
  • 2 : File Type Not Supported

Subscribing / unsubscribing to events from Javascript

• Subscribe: flashobject.addEventListener(event_name, subscriber_method_name);

• Unsubscribe: flashobject.removeListener(event_name, subscriber_method_name);

• onLoading

  • Subscriber method signature: function subscriber_method_name(eventid, eventvalue)

• onStateChange

• onError

  • Subscriber method signature: function subscriber_method_name(eventid)

Methods

• load(params) - params: url + "," + start_time + "," + end_time

• play()

• stop()

• pause()

• pause(float)

• getVolume()

• getCurrentTime()

• getStartTime()

• getEndTime()

Example

• The player can be tested using the file bin-debug/test.html. Usage: fill the url field -> press load -> press play.