Video Clear

Question

Hi everyone, I'm trying to create a videochat using Flex 3
and Flash Media server and I have some problems with the method
"Clear" of Video object. When a user stop publishing its stream
(from the webcam), I receive an event because a shared object
property (with the id of the publisher) changes to "null". At this
time, I invoke the method "clear" of the video object that contains
the stream, but the screen (videoDisplay containing the video
object) doesn't change. I continue seeing the last frame received.
What can I do? Thanks!!

Answer 1

You could also subclass the VideoDisplay control and add your
own public "clear()" method which calls the
mx_internal::videoPlayer.clear() code.
[ActionScript]
package {
import mx.controls.VideoDisplay;
import mx.core.mx_internal;
public class MyVideoDisplay extends VideoDisplay {
public function MyVideoDisplay() {
//TODO: implement function
super();
public function clear():void {
pause();
mx_internal::videoPlayer.clear();
[/ActionScript]
[MXML]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
xmlns:custom="*" layout="vertical">
<custom:MyVideoDisplay id="myVideoDisplay" source="
http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/video/cuepoints.flv"
/>
<mx:Button label="clear" click="myVideoDisplay.clear();"
/>
</mx:Application>
[/MXML]
Peter