ActionScript 3.0 :: Preloading A Video Without Playing?
May 22, 2009
I've made a video class that holds a video. I want to be able to create an instance of this class, give it a video to preload, check if its all preloaded, then start playing it.Currently the only way i can find to start it preloading is to call 'ns.play()', however this starts the video actually playing.Is it netstream that i should actually be using here?
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package{import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.net.NetConnection;import flash.net.NetStream; import flash.media.Video;import flash.events.*
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Line 14: There is no property with the name 'video'.
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