Comments on: 3 Years Later, NetStream Still Sucks

By: ++Hadi++

++Hadi++ — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:25:51 +0000

hi
Is there any way to seek a video which has been already loaded with appendBytes in bytearray style?
when i do this,it freezes and i can’t even pause or play it after resuming(Playing) that…
is there please!???

By: Streaming Video Player | Tomasino Labs

Streaming Video Player | Tomasino Labs — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:13:00 +0000

[...] also fixed a bug with ‘NetStream.Seek.Notify’ events as mentioned in this post. In short, when you were to seek to a new position, it would dispatch that event before the [...]

By: Philip Bulley

Philip Bulley — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:13:07 +0000

Am I right in thinking that the first NetStream.Buffer.Full after a NetStream.Seek.Notify is also a good place to get/dispatch the correct NetStream.time? Been playing with this idea for a few minutes, and seems to work well. Any thoughts?

By: makc

makc — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:42:00 +0000

over 5 years later, and netstream STILL sucks :(

By: Andre Paz Leal

Andre Paz Leal — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:50:52 +0000

Hi, NetStream is making the browser crash in 10.1…? It´s simple, the sound start, the character start to talk and keeps seeking the flv that make it open and close the mouth, the sound completes the character go to an iddle position and keep seeking the last flv where the character is blinking etc…I´ve been using this for the past 2 years without ptoblem and know it seems that when I go to frames it make the swf heavier, until it crashes…!!!

var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
character.attachVideo(ns);
var my_sound:Sound = new Sound();
my_sound.onLoad = function(success:Boolean)
{
if (success)
{
ns.play(“character_going_talk.flv”);
ns.onStatus = function(info:Object)
{
trace(info.code);
if (info.code == ‘NetStream.Play.Stop’)
{
ns.play(“character_talk.flv”);
ns.onStatus = function(info:Object)
{
if(info.code==’NetStream.Play.Stop’)
{
ns.seek(0);
}
}
}
}
}
};

my_sound.onSoundComplete = function()
{
ns.play(“character_going_rest.flv”);
ns.onStatus = function(info:Object)
{
trace(info.code);
if(info.code == ‘NetStream.Play.Stop’)
{
ns.play(“character_rest.flv”);
ns.onStatus = function(info:Object)
{
if(info.code==’NetStream.Play.Stop’)
{
ns.seek(0);
}
}
}
}
};

By: emtege

emtege — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:25:07 +0000

Hi there,
today the ticket was updated in the bugbase saying that an employee of Adobe is looking into this thing – finally :)

Hopefully there will be a solution soon!
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1705

By: Flex and Flash Developer – Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm » Blog Archive » Wish List for Flash Player 11

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:28:20 +0000

[...] I have many video projects where NetStream breaks, and I need to fix it. Â Additionally, I have many cool video scrubbing, pausing, and DVD like [...]

By: Bug: Nach NetStream.seekTo() kommt NetStream.Seek.Notify zu frÃ¼h | Studio B12 Blog

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:43:15 +0000

[...] gibt schon eine ganze Weile eine lÃ¤stige Unart des NetStream-Objekts von [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:20:38 +0000

I agree. Netstream has convoluted behavior and API. The jumpiness blows my mind.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:18:46 +0000

I agree. Netstream is very convoluted in its behavior, and in my opinion, its API.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:01:21 +0000

Hi there,
I recently stumbled upon this bug and entered it into the Adobe bugbase: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1705

Please vote for this to get it done in the future!

By: localToGlobal » Blog Archive » news review -> 45th week of 2008

localToGlobal » Blog Archive » news review -> 45th week of 2008 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:14:36 +0000

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By: Asa Whillock

Asa Whillock — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:13:50 +0000

Hey Brooks,

Thanks for bringing this stuff up. It may sound ridic or pandering but I actually look for well formed issues and bugs like this as it gives us a clear model of what we have to do better. So for the most part, I agree with you.

It’s worth putting a bug in to make sure that the stream time is already updated once the NetStream.Seek.Notify comes up. If you haven’t already please file a bug on this here

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=16

You can file it under Flash Player, that link is for Flash Media Server, the product that I work on.

Speaking of which the messaging surrounding seeking sounds a little confused. FMS offers seeking for all codec types with iFrame precision, Progressive Flash Video does not. The docs are wrong if they indicate otherwise, and that should be corrected with a bug there too.

Feel free to contact me directly if you or anyone else you know have more ‘it sucks’ feelings on NetStream or Flash Video – they’re useful.

Asa
Flash Media Server

By: Zohar Babin

Zohar Babin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:57:35 +0000

I guess we have to start making some noise…

“Keep the feedback up though, the more noise there is about this the more chances there are we will address some of this ;-)” (Tinic Uro, 3 years ago).

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:57:28 +0000

Having spent the greater part of the last 4 years rolling custom video player applications around NetStream, I can completely feel your pain. While status event behavior has appeared to be more consistent in recent iterations of the player, the solution that I’ve sometimes employed, when given the chance (whenever I have access to the interface designer prior to the client signing off on whatever I’m working on) is to remove the scrubber handle completely from the UI. Instead of clicking and dragging, the user simply clicks anywhere on the progress bar and the seek is initiated. Because there’s no display object being dragged, the nasty snap back artifact is removed. Some would argue that this removes functionality, since the action of dragging a handle back and forth affords the opportunity to “scrub” (emphasis on quotes) the video, but performance has historically been so poor when doing rapid short seek()’s, it’s not a feature I ever code in anyway.

By: jacob

jacob — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:33:56 +0000

QuickTime is also a 66 meg download so probably has a lot more libraries to deal with it

By: Josh Chernoff

Josh Chernoff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:32:02 +0000

Strange, I have been doing flash for a few years now and only until today did I get a job that needed me to make my own player. I have to say that seeking, displaying and getting info about a stream is really convoluted.

Funny I should see this post today. I really love that you can’t just add an addEventListener to get onMetaData. That sure makes my clean code go to shit.