Dynamic Buffering

Question

I'm tring to implement a dual buffering strategy. (Flash
Media Server 3, Flash Player 9 and Actionscript 3)
I have a simple player with FLVComponent, a standard skin
using the vod application.
I put in the first frame the following code:
videoPlayer.bufferTime = 8;
videoPlayer.source = root.loaderInfo.parameters.url; (I use
the variable url to pass the video name)
I read your article but I don't know how to use the code. I
tried to copy and past below my to lines and didn't work.
Please help me.
Thanks,
Thiago Prado
function initConnection() {
// Create a NetConnection
nc = new NetConnection();
// Define onStatus event handler
nc.onStatus = function(info) {
trace("Level: "+info.level+" Code: "+info.code);
// Initialize the stream after the connection is successful
if (info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success") {
trace("--- connected to: " + this.uri);
startStream(); //Inizialize the stream
// try to connect, to be changed with your app path
nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/vod");
function startStream() {
//Define stream and buffers parameters
stream_name="test_stream"; //your stream - How can I pass my
variable url to stream_name?
startBufferLength=2; //keep this in the range 2-4+
expandedBufferLength=15; //arbitrarily high
// create a netstream
ns = new NetStream(nc);
// Define onStatus event handler
ns.onStatus = function(infoObject:Object) {
if (infoObject["code"]=="NetStream.Buffer.Full"){
ns.setBufferTime(expandedBufferLength);
trace("set expanded buffer");
if (infoObject["code"]=="NetStream.Buffer.Empty"){
ns.setBufferTime(startBufferLength);
trace("set start buffer");
// attach the NetStream to a video object
// change from videoObj to your istance name if needed
videoObj.attachVideo(ns);
ns.setBufferTime(startBufferLength);
ns.play(stream_name, 0);
initConnection();
stop();

Answer 1

I don't use FLVPlayback (I write my own players) but for sure
AS2 or AS3 the code you are trying to use is not good because it
doesn't use FLVPlayback.
There is an example in CS3/CS4 of using FLVPlayback.
Here is documentation for the componenet:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/fl/video/FLVPlayback.html