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.

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.)