Is there a way to have one flash player play all moives on a web page ?

Question

Hi,
  Is there a way to have one flash player play all movies on a web page ?   For example, you have a list of FLV movies on a page and you click on any them and it will play on the same player on the web page. Or does each movie needs it's own ?
Thanks in advance..
Peter

Answer 1

Yes, for the design I made, the movies are loaded from the server.  Here is the code for the design.  It is done using AS2, and the stage includes two buttons (s1, s2) for playing the individual videos, one button to play them both (playall), one after the other, and the video object (video1_video) that was added via small menu you find at the top of the library panel's frame.
I cannot say this would work directly for your implementation, but it gives you some things you can look into so that you can figure out how.
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
// ignore whatever code is above this... the forum added it, not me  
stop();
ncount = -1;
var connection_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
connection_nc.connect(null);
var stream_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(connection_nc);
stream_ns.setBufferTime(3);
stream_ns.onStatus = function(infoObject:Object) {
        for (var prop in infoObject) {
               if(infoObject[prop] == "NetStream.Play.Stop" && ncount == 0){
                   video1_video.attachVideo(stream_ns);
                   stream_ns.play("20051210-w50s.flv");
                   ncount += 1;
playall.onRelease = function(){
      ncount = 0;
      video1_video.attachVideo(stream_ns);
      stream_ns.play("barsandtone.flv");
s1.onRelease = function(){
      video1_video.attachVideo(stream_ns);
      stream_ns.play("barsandtone.flv");
s2.onRelease = function(){
      ncount = -1;
      video1_video.attachVideo(stream_ns);
      stream_ns.play("20051210-w50s.flv");
I don't deal with video very often, so I have not created an AS3 version of this.