My custom movieplayer uses the following code for playing video. It takes a really long time for the clip to start playing, but once it does, you can skip directly to the end. I have a feeling that there is some knowledge I'm missing in how buffers and preload works. Could somebody send me in the right direcion?
private function init(e:Event = null):void {
connection = new NetConnection();
connection.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, doNetStatus);
connection.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, doIOError);
connection.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, doSecurityError);
connection.connect(null);
stream = new NetStream(connection);
stream.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, doAsyncError);
stream.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, doNetStatus);
stream.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, doIOError);
stream.client = this;
video = new Video(1024, 576);
mc = new MovieClip();
mc.addChild(video);
stage.addChild(mc);
mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
video.attachNetStream(stream);
stream.bufferTime = 5;
stream.receiveAudio(true);
stream.receiveVideo(true);
stream.play(SITEURL + vidID +".mp4");
}
You can see the player in action here: http://joon.be/serve/ngjd_player.swf
Apparently the video's weren't streaming because I needed to run QT FastStart on them. This solved the problem, netstream is now running as expected.