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First showcase of Flash Media Player

Well, here's a sampler of a very basic build of the video player. At this point, the playlist is populated by an XML datasheet which makes things much nicer. It resizes without a hitch (still need to test resizing to different aspect ratios) and a buffer progress bar allows you to see how far the download is. Still, this baby has a LONG way to go. Stupid little quirks like the visible moving of some of the components isn't too cool and some really basic features that will keep just about anyone from wanting to use this tool (mute, volume control, auto-play toggle, loop toggle, etc) need to be put in. Nonetheless, it definately can't be mistaken for anything other than a movie player now. I'd say a few more heavy days of work and it should be done.

I thought it would be fun to throw a lot of different videos on here for a test but I was having FLV encoding problems so I left it to only two videos that are the definition of dichotomy. Have fun.

Here's a list of both completed and incomplete features:

• XML-driven playlist - COMPLETED
• Customized play-control interface (playlist, pause, play, etc.) - COMPLETED
• Custom-styled Flash Components
• Hi/Lo Res toggle capabilities - SCRATCHED (not neccesary)
• Frame re-sizing feature - COMPLETED
• Better buffer functionality
• Volume controls
• Auto-play, loop toggle
• General polishing

By the way, With Teeth is coming out May 3rd. I honestly can't remember the last time I was this excited about an albumn release. This is definately an artist worth supporting.