At MAX, Will Law from Akamai and myself presented an introduction to OSMF. The session got recorded, and is now available here. The sources used on the code walk-through are available here.
The ‘code’ folder of the sources archive contains 5 Flex projects. The following 3 are core to the main part of the demo:
- MediaFramework, a snapshot of the OSMF.
- Chrome, an ad-hoc library that exposes an Illustrator designed player chrome (see ‘assets/chrome.ai’) in Flash.
- Player, the project containing the actual stepped through sample code.
The following two projects are OSMF plug-ins:
- AkamaiBasicStreamingPlugin, a snapshot of the plug-in from SVN, used from the Player project on demoing plug-in loading (see Player2.as).
- CCPlugin, an internal research plug-in on captioning, used from the Player project on demoing advanced plug-ins (see Player3.as).
In order for the plug-ins to load correctly on doing a debug run fromFlex, they need to be on a server, so after expanding the archive, the Player, and both plug-inprojects are set to export to /Users/edwin/Sites’. Make sure to changethe project settings to match your own local server paths using theproject properties dialog:
If no local server is available, the Player project can be set toexport to a local folder. The code from ‘Player1.as’ will still work that way, but loading theplug-ins (from ‘Player2.as’ and ‘Player3.as’) will fail.
Last, the CCPlugin demo references a ‘http://localhost/~edwin/trailer.flv’ file. On running the sample, make sure to point this URL to a progressive flv file that contains a number of cue points. The plug-in will overlay the cue point titles.
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