Comments on: 5 Reasons NetStream Sucks

By: tommy brett

tommy brett — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:22:14 +0000

Wow, I came here looking about info on if I could check whether my netstream_ was playing or not (I’m programming a recovery function for when the buffer empties due to a disconnect or other catastrophe) and noticed the comments were old… But alas, still relevant. Sigh :(

By: Pipeman

Pipeman — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:15:19 +0000

Just keeping this thread alive – into the next decade now and still not fixed! Yay that most of my paid work is jquery not Flash now so I don’t have to waste hours on Friday night finding out why netStream.time is wrong…

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:43:39 +0000

Years later, still nothing has changed…. Ugh.

By: 3 Years Later, NetStream Still Sucks

3 Years Later, NetStream Still Sucks — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:28:30 +0000

[...] way for Flash Player to do this? Or at least duplicate the trickery that Windows Media Player uses (as described by Tinic in a comment on my blog post from 3 years ago). Give us something to avoid playhead jumpiness and [...]

By: sp

sp — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:07:13 +0000

Sadly, I found this article on rank #2 (!) in google germany when trying to find the adobe livedocs for NetStream.time.

I see that the article is almost 3 years old, and I face EXACTLY the same problems you described in your blog. God I hope so much Silverlight will win the upcoming fight against Flash.

However, thanks for this post Brooks, it actually helped me a lot. It would have taken me days to figure out that NetStream.time doesnt update immediately after NetStream.seek was called.

By: Mac keth

Mac keth — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:02:48 +0000

Now days with the advance of digital cameras, its common to have images bigger the 2880 x 2800, and its really lame that Flash 8 dosent support them.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:13:35 +0000

I’m with you, I’m not sure why NetStream.Seek.Notify is useful if NetStream.time hasn’t been updated. How is the seek operation really complete if Flash thinks the time you start the seek and the time the seek is complete are the same?

And let’s not forget how ridiculous it is to try to determine whether a video has finished playing, or if you do a bunch of seeks with the FLVPlayback component it pauses until it completes ALL of them. Guh.

Flash video is great, but REALLY clunky if you try to use anything to control it other than the built-in components.

By: jignesh dodiya » Blog Archive » Why NetStream Sucks????

jignesh dodiya » Blog Archive » Why NetStream Sucks???? — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:10:26 +0000

[...] I found on brooksandrus’ blog some good reasons why NetStream sucks for various factors. May be helpful on facing some problem on this More read on his article here [...]

By: maexchen.info - media | mental | net | explorations » Blog Archive » FLV rocks but seeking sucks

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:55:32 +0000

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By: Brooks

Brooks — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:38:13 +0000

Holy cow, I’ve never been called a sausage before….weiner, sure, but a sausage–sounds like an upgrade.
In all seriousness I don’t think you guys are appreciating that I’m a huge advocate of Flash video–I just feel like it can and should be more than it is.
I want to munch on Tinic’s post a bit before I respond, but I’ll have more to say.

By: iongion

iongion — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:45:24 +0000

This Marina girls(the names is of a girl right ?) really puts the cherry on the cake!

By: Marina Schiller

Marina Schiller — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:57:15 +0000

You miserable sausage. Everyone knows that Flash Video is hip. What lengths you go to spoil your own party. C’mon get with the program bud.

Sorry this isn’t a very useful post but Tinic has already laid down the smack on yo a**. b****.

By: Tinic Uro

Tinic Uro — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:46:20 +0000

1. Yep, but unlike what you think Windows Media does the same thing. It does better in the way that it still does play the audio until hits a key frame. We could improve this the same way. And are you talking about progressive or streaming video? For streaming video you can enable enhanced seeking support and not have this problem.

2. That depends if you use FlashCom with enhanced seeking enabled. Google Video also has a good solution using progressive video IMO, it does intelligent rebuffering.

3. What type of behavior would you expect here? Currently the time is updated as soon as a piece of audio or video is decoded and displayed on screen.

4. Are you talking about progressive or streamed video? In case of streaming the player currently does this through RTMP which might definitly not be the best solution. A good test case where this is a real issue would be interesting for us.

5. Sounds like an enhancement request. Any ideas for a good API to query this state without making it less useable than it already is? On the other hand this is the kind of stuff we tried to abstract in the Flash 8 video component.

Keep the feedback up though, the more noise there is about this the more chances there are we will address some of this ;-)