mandarin.no » totalTime http://mandarin.no Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:35:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 totalTime and MetadataReceived from VideoDisplay object in Flex http://mandarin.no/as3/totaltime-and-metadatareceived-from-videodisplay-object-in-flex-2/ http://mandarin.no/as3/totaltime-and-metadatareceived-from-videodisplay-object-in-flex-2/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:53:15 +0000 Thomas Viktil http://mandarin.no/as3/totaltime-and-metadatareceived-from-videodisplay-object-in-flex-2/ Interesting (and more than a bit annoying) observation; neither the property totalTime or the event MetadataEvent.METADATA_RECEIVED will trigger unless the buffer is full.

I just discovered this as I tried to dynamically set the bufferTime to be 30% of the total playtime (I calculate the bufferTime using totalBytes and bytesLoaded). But as I traced values like totalTime, I noticed it would stay at -1 until the video started playing (in other words; the buffer was full). Just for the sake of curiosity I set up an eventlistener listening for the duration property of the MetadataReceived event object. Interesting enough it wouldn’t trigger until the buffer was full.

It has been filed as a bug at Adobe’s Flex Bug and Issues Management System.

Possible workaround:

  1. set bufferTime to 0 at initialization (this would hopefully trigger the READY event (or MetadataReceived if you prefer)

  2. catch the totalTime value

  3. pause/stop the video

  4. increase bufferTime (or skip number 3 and go directly to number 4. It might work?)

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