Flex4: Detect source Video size VideoPlayer?

Question

Is it possible in Flex 4's VideoPlayer control (spark.components.VideoPlayer) to detect some attributes of the source video?

In my case, it's a local file. I would need to detect the original width and height of the input source video (an h264 f4v).

Thanks

Answer 1

You can get that info from the videoWidth and videoHeight properties of the video object that is contained within the video player, for example:

//Assuming you have your VideoPlayer object with an id of "videoPlayer"
videoPlayer.videoObject.videoWidht;
videoPlayer.videoObject.videoHeight;

Hope that helped.

Answer 2

You need to listen for a MediaPlayerStateChangeEvent.MEDIA_PLAYER_STATE_CHANGE event on the VideoPlayer before accessing this property. For some strange reason you need to wait until event.state == MediaPlayerState.BUFFERING as its not yet available on MediaPlayerStateChangeEvent.READY as you'd probably expect.