Nat Dip - Web Video Players

Following on from the last few days of Flash training you are required to write a blog post about web based flash video players. Two examples worth looking at are BBC iPlayer and the JCB Song website. Both are very good, and both are very different in their appearance and approach to providing the user with playback controls.

• You need to review a few different approaches to video flash players and discuss them now in terms of the "Principles of Interactive Media" research that you did.
• Demonstrate your understanding of these principles as you discuss your selected flash video player samples.
• Now that you have some understanding of how flash video players can be constructed from scratch using actionscript and symbols, you might also comment on the advantages and disadvantages of both scratch-built custom flash video players, and the ready made flash video player components.

Recap

The details on how to construct a flash video player from scratch can be found on my other blog here:

http://dansinteractive.blogspot.com/2008/08/flash-projects-3-custom-flv-player.html