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This is an extremely outdated article which was posted before they added "StageVideo", an API that fixes this problem 100%. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashpl

• jessriedel 14y ago
  So is this evidence that the blog author was full of it when he wrote this?
  • 0x0 14y ago
    Not really, StageVideo has a bunch of limitations in the compositing pipeline, but that doesn't really matter if all you want to do is build a 2D movie player. Anyways, I guess Adobe changed their mind later, and decided they wanted to solve both of the "different problems" mentioned in the blog post. (Remember, Flash used to be all about vector animations. Sometimes it'd seem like the ubiquitous flash-as-a-video-player thing happened almost by accident; it turns out the video support (a relatively small feature in the whole flash featureset) was good enough to bring "universal" video to the web.)