Playing a subsection of a video

Question

Say I have a video clip that is about 1 minute long.  I would like to click on a button and only play a certain subsection of the video; for example from start+10 seconds to start+20 seconds.  Does anyone have an idea on how to do this without embedding cue points in the video?
Thanks in advance.
mc

Answer 1

If you want to play a section from the middle, you do exactly the same thing. But instead of adding 10 seconds to 0:00 you'll add to 2:34 ( or from wherever you want it to start ). You can also store the starting point, so in the end you'll have startPoint = 2:34 , endPoint = 2:44 and after all this is stored, then you can jump to minute 2:34 in the video and start listening for the endPoint from there.
You can use the seek() method provided by the NetStream object to jump to a certain time in the video.
For more info, read up here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/net/NetStream.html
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=Working_with_Video_01.html
The method is exactly the same, just that before you set the startPoint and endPoint, you'll use the seek(); method to jump to the startPoint and start playing the video from there. Obviously, that's when you instantiate the listener that compares the current video position to the endPoint. Once the endPoint is reached, stop the video.
With best regards,
Barna Biro
Blog: http://blog.wisebisoft.com
EDIT: adding cue points dynamically is possible just that it can get tricky. Read up on the links I provided because they cover most of this. Once you understand how to work with video, you can start solving the problem.