9
Working with Audio and Video
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:
- Introduction to the Open Source Media Framework
- Creating media resources and elements
- Accessing media traits
- Handling media trait events
- Using Media Player classes to play media
- Utilizing the Video Player component to play video
This chapter introduces you to aspects of the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF, www.osmf.org) and explores the core classes found in the framework that are used to work with audio and video.
You'll also build a media player example demonstrating the capabilities of OSMF, and using the Flex <s:VideoPlayer> component to examine how you can use video within your mobile applications.
INTRODUCING THE OPEN SOURCE MEDIA FRAMEWORK
The Open Source Media Framework is an open source development framework for Flash-based media players, aimed at simplifying the build of media based applications, in particular utilizing audio and video.
Figure 9-1 shows the OSMF logo.
FIGURE 9-1: The OSMF logo
The open nature of OSMF and its pluggable architecture facilitates a collaborative development effort in the Flash community, with Adobe and many third parties developing plug-ins that can swap in and out of media players. In addition, the core OSMF source code is updated at periodic intervals.
However, you should note that at the time of writing the release version of OSMF is version 1.5, while the latest working ...
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