Comments on: Open Video Player in AIR

By: justin

justin — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:21:55 +0000

@technofeeliak: I think what you want is the Native Process API that's available in AIR 2.0. Using this new API, you should be able to write a catalog browser app in AIR that gets its data from file system, but defers to some non-flash video player application for playback. I'd recommend using VLC for your video player, because Windows Media Player sucks. Some googling turned up this article on using the Native Process API to control MPlayer (another video player application). Good luck.

By: technofeeliak

technofeeliak — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:54:18 +0000

I don’t like the Flash player very much. Like everything Adobe makes it’s not user friendly and takes a lot of time to become familiar.

I don’t understand why no one has talked about making a flash menu that links multiple video files. My idea is to make a graphic interface with which I can access my entire dvd collection backed up as vob files and play them in Windows Media Player. Imagine how easy it would be to chose the movie you want to watch with a totally customized menu including and image of the dvd cover, links to IMDb.com for more information, a play button to one or more disks that came with the title, along with multiple views of the listed collection to facilitate navigation. I came so close to completing this project but couldn’t link the play buttons to the vob files for them to open in WMP. I’ve written to Adobe and of course they don’t explain anything. I’ve spent a lot of time watching tutorials on lynda.com but still nothing. I learned about the existence of AIR and some of it’s capabilities but still no clue about the line of code I need to get the buttons to open the video files in WMP (Windows Media Player). If someone can give me some kind of resource I’d really appreciate it.

By: alberto

alberto — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:23:33 +0000

hei!
i was troubling with netstream for a while great article!

By: justin

justin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:20:06 +0000

I must agree that the OVP is currently 95% hype…but not without reason because there’s definitely something there.

Hopefully, Adobe will come in and take web video to the next level.

By: Peter Carabeo-Nieva

Peter Carabeo-Nieva — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:43:27 +0000

Great Post! We both happen to be very early tinkerers of OVP, there’s almost nothing else out there on the web regarding OVP at this point, just a bunch of press but nobody really putting it to use and blogging about it etc. I’m actually looking to extend it greatly so that it can tie into ad serving systems etc. Adobe Strobe also looks very promising but it won’t be out for a while. Thanks again for this excellent post!