BufferTime for FLVPLayBack

I am working with Playing FLVPlayBack Video. i was wondering about what is best practice to use buffer time? and how exactly buffer behaves while video is in play , pause and stop states?
If i set my FLVPlayBack instance buffer time to 30 sec,
Is it contiguously keep 30 secs video in buffer. for e.g
if video is on 15 sec , then it will be having upto 45 sec stream in buffer ,
for 25 it will have 55 sec stream ,
for 1.10 it have 1.40 sec stream and so on.. ??
do it behave same as of in play , in pause and stop states . and if behaves diff. then what is the diff.

I thought that might be the answer, as it is the answer for
the AS 2.0 way of doing it.
I figured the AS 3.0 equivalent would be something much more
complicated and crazy.

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