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the application called ffmpegx (http://homepage.mac.com/ma

jor4/) which runs on the Mac and handles all of the nasty com-

mand-line stuff for me. If video is a central focus of your ap-

plication, you'll want to look into Adobe's Flash Media Server

which handles high volume video streaming.

Once I have my movies in FLV format, I put them up on my

localhost site so that I can point a Flex VideoDisplay control at

them. Unlike images, you can’t point the video display at a local

video resource without jumping through some security hoops.

The next step is to create the Flex application to display the

video, as shown in Example 6-10.

Example 6-10. Movies.mxml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"

layout="horizontal">

<mx:Array id="movieList">

<mx:String>http://localhost/megan1.flv</mx:String>

<mx:String>http://localhost/megan2.flv</mx:String>

<mx:String>http://localhost/megan3.flv</mx:String>

</mx:Array>

<mx:VBox>

<mx:List id="cntlMovie" dataProvider="{movieList}"

width="300" />

<mx:Button label="Pause" click="cntlDisp.pause();" />

<mx:Button label="Play" click="cntlDisp.play();" />

</mx:VBox>

<mx:VideoDisplay id="cntlDisp"

source="{cntlMovie.selectedItem.valueOf()}"

width="400" height="300" />

</mx:Application>

Just like with the image viewer, I have an array of movies at the

top of the application. I then have a list control that shows the

movies so that I can select them, as well as buttons to play and

pause the video. Then, at the bottom of the file, I have the

VideoDisplay control that does all of the hard work of showing

the video.

When I launch this from Flex Builder I see the application

shown in Figure 6-9.

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