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FLVPlayback Video Smoothing

Posted At: February 3, 2006 7:34 PM | Posted By: Julian
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Andrew Wason from Motionbox Inc. sent me the following workaround, which allows you to activate video smoothing for FLVPlayback components (in this case the instance FLVPlayer):

MovieClip(FLVPlayer.getVideoPlayer(FLVPlayer.activeVideoPlayerIndex))._video.smoothing = true;

By converting the component video player’s data type to a MovieClip, you get around the video player’s access control and can directly access its video object. This way you can then change its smoothing parameter.

See it for yourself:

Thanks again to Andrew for sharing this workaround.

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This is the solution we are looking for but, we couldnt find a way of converting the component video player’s data type to a MovieClip?

# Posted By Matt | 10/8/07 8:33 PM

just name the instance of the component FLVPlayer

# Posted By joni | 10/23/07 10:07 AM

Simple and effective. Thanx :)

# Posted By Jakob E | 11/5/07 5:19 AM

Cool, thanks for the hint! Fullscreen video looks so much better with this!
Peace,
kolt

# Posted By kolt | 1/18/08 2:45 AM

I get an error that says... Type Coercion failed: cannot convert fl.video to type MovieClip

# Posted By matt | 1/22/08 11:47 AM

matt: I changed it to
flv.getVideoPlayer(flv.activeVideoPlayerIndex).smoothing = true;

and it WORKS
flv is the FLVPlayback instance name.

# Posted By leepa | 2/21/08 12:58 AM

hi thanks for this i was looking for his for about 3 hours thankx again

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# Posted By Jose | 3/24/08 1:21 PM

flv.getVideoPlayer(flv.activeVideoPlayerIndex).smoothing = true;
**flv is the FLVPlayback instance name**

This freaking works!!! I'd hump your leg if you were right here. This is the only place I can find the fing answer on the entire internet. THANK YOU GUYS

# Posted By Todd | 5/2/08 10:21 PM

cool!! but hardware accellation dosen't working with fullscreen mode. Plz help!

# Posted By flux | 7/12/08 1:23 PM

For me, trying to cast it as a MovieClip failed, but luckily someone figured out that it works if you dont cast it.

flv.getVideoPlayer(flv.activeVideoPlayerIndex).smoothing = true;

Thanks!

# Posted By Phil | 8/8/08 1:13 AM

Cool, thanks for the hint! Fullscreen video looks so much better with this.

# Posted By Oyun | 11/15/08 1:05 AM

hi thanks for this i was looking for his for about 3 hours thankx again

# Posted By Oyunlar | 3/31/09 1:07 PM

matt: I changed it to
flv.getVideoPlayer(flv.activeVideoPlayerIndex).smoothing = true;

and it WORKS
flv is the FLVPlayback instance name.

THAT WORKED FOR ME TOO!! THANKS FOR POSTING THAT FOLLOW UP!

# Posted By frost | 4/28/09 4:02 PM

it doesn't work to me!

I'm usig flash cs3 with AS2,... and a video converter from youtube (the flv with VLC player looks smooth in any scale)

any help??

# Posted By javiero | 6/4/09 11:00 AM

hey javiero. Same but heres my fix.

MovieClip(FLVPlayer.getVideoPlayer(FLVPlayer.activeVideoPlayerIndex))._video.smoothing = true;

Just name the instance of the flv component FLVPlayer.

# Posted By mike | 10/4/09 9:45 PM

THANX A LOT! It was driving my nuts!

# Posted By Ricardo | 10/23/09 6:26 PM

Hi:
Thanks for the info, but I beleive it´s not necessary to convert the FLV to a MovieClip.

This works too:
FLVPlayback.getVideoPlayer(FLVPlayback.activeVideoPlayerIndex).smoothing = true;

# Posted By Tahi | 12/15/09 2:44 AM

Thanks for the great solution. now I have a question: this action works perfectly when tested within the Flash environment, but I do not work when I put the swf in a html how should be the action in this case? that does not work = (

# Posted By cayayo | 5/26/10 7:43 AM

Muchas gracias maestro!! esto soluciona perfectamente el smooth al redimensionar mis videos.

# Posted By Andrés | 6/21/10 8:53 AM

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