How to detect when video is buffering?
- by Leon
Hi guys, my question today deals with Flash AS3 video buffering. (Streaming or Progressive) I want to be able to detect when the video is being buffered, so I can display some sort of animation letting the user know to wait just a little longer.
Currently my video will start up, hold on frame 1 for 3-4 secs then play. Kinda giving the impression that the video is paused or broken :(
Update
Thanks to iandisme I believe I'm faced in the right direction now. NetStatusEvent from livedocs. It seems to me that the key status to be working in is "NetStream.Buffer.Empty" so I added some code in there to see if this would trigger my animation or a trace statement. No luck yet, however when the Buffer is full it will trigger my code :/ Maybe my video is always somewhere between Buffer.Empty and Buffer.Full that's why it won't trigger any code when I test case for Buffer.Empty?
Current Code
public function netStatusHandler(event:NetStatusEvent):void
{
// handles net status events
switch (event.info.code)
{
case "NetStream.Buffer.Empty":
trace("¤¤¤ Buffering!"); //<- never traces
addChild(bufferLoop); //<- doesn't execute
break;
case "NetStream.Buffer.Full":
trace("¤¤¤ FULL!"); //<- trace works here
removeChild(bufferLoop); //<- so does any other code
break;
case "NetStream.Buffer.Flush":
trace("¤¤¤ FLUSH!");
//Not sure if this is important
break
}
}
