Use DisplayObject in flash.media.Video

[zz2111]

Hi there, I am working on a project where I would like to use an externally retrieved DisplayObject instance as a flash.media.Video instance. The DisplayObject is a Flash wrapper of a streaming video that provides a set of API calls to interact with the video. But I don't have access to the internal video object itself nor to the netStream/netConnection property of the video. Is it possible at all to somehow use the DisplayObject as a flash.media.Video? Thanks a lot!

[wvxvw]

Video inherits from DisplayObject, so, in other words, it is DisplayObject. But you cannot use just any DisplayObject to display video, you need it to inherit from Video. I don't think I understood the rest of the question though: why do you want to use an object that doesn't allow you to [attach / detach video stream?] to it to play video instead of another object that would do it?

[zz2111]

The scenario is in my project I have to play Youtube videos that are retrieved through the Youtube Flash API. All Youtube videos are wrapped in a DisplayObject that due to their TOS I cannot crack into. So I have to use the DisplayObject as it is through the public methods it provides.

On the other hand, we are using a commercial Flash player to play our other videos stored in Amazon Cloudfront. We want to use the consistent interface on these Youtube videos too. And the Flash player we have uses a subclass of flash.media.Video. Unfortunately this Flash player can't use the Youtube DisplayObject directly (Error #1034: type conversion failed). So I wonder if there is something that I missed.

Hope this clarifies better my intentions. If you have any suggestions please do post to me. Thanks a lot!

Originally Posted by wvxvw

Video inherits from DisplayObject, so, in other words, it is DisplayObject. But you cannot use just any DisplayObject to display video, you need it to inherit from Video. I don't think I understood the rest of the question though: why do you want to use an object that doesn't allow you to [attach / detach video stream?] to it to play video instead of another object that would do it?

[wvxvw]

Although it's not impossible to substitute YouTube video player for something else to play YouTube videos, this will probably violate the terms of service. So this isn't really a programming related question.
So, probably, the answer is "no, you can't" because of the legal limitations.

I'm still not certain about the techical aspects of what you were trying to achieve, but probably it's not important as there's no way to do it anyway. I would imagine that YouTube video player is some kind of DisplayObject and trying to "play" it as if it was video is roughtly as trying to play a television, instead of playing a movie.