Flash video / autohide question

Question

Hi,
I'm building a website in Flash 8 which plays a number of
videos. I have the choice of playing the videos using FLVPlayback
components built into each video's .swf, or just creating a custom
controller skin (the client wants a skin which resembles a
QuickTime controller).
My problem is this: the client wants the video controller to
"autohide", which is easy to do with skins by turning on the
"autohide" feature. However, we want the controller to stay in
place while the FLV buffers so users can see that it is loading.
Surely there is a short bit of ActionScript that will keep the
controller visible while buffering, only to revert back to
conventional "autohide on" once it's playing?
Cheers

Answer 1

Here is a sort of solution. Click on the component and open
the component inspector, make skinAutoHide = false. This way the
skin shows no matter what. Now give the flvplayback component
instance name like vid. The put this code on the frame;
var vidList:Object = new Object();
vidList.playing = function(){
vid.skinAutoHide = true;
vid.addEventListener ("playing",vidList);
stop;
What this does is listen for the movie to play. Once the
movie is playing the skin changes to autohide being true. It is not
exactly what you want, but it is better then nothing.
I know the above code works.
Now here is another method doing what you want but I am not
sure if it works:
var vidList:Object = new Object();
vidList.buffering= function(){
vid.skinAutoHide = false;
vid.addEventListener ("buffering",vidList);
stop;
The problem here is that when buffering is done I am not sure
how to change the skin hiding to true. That will disable hiding
during buffering though.