Open Source Media Framework (Sprint 8) Bug in NetStreamPlayTrait and NetStreamTimeTrait?
Over the last two months or so I've been keeping my eyes on Adobe's Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) project. I started fiddling around with Sprint 7, seeing if I could build a progressive video player component on top of it. My first impression was that the project was still in its infancy solely based on the naming conventions of the framework's events. It just didn't feel intuitive. Additionally, there seemed to be some bugs surrounding the seeking of progressive videos. Alas, the development team has made some major improvements in Sprint 8 with regards to both of these items.
Upon downloading Sprint 8 I was immediately happy with the renaming of the framework event classes. They make much more sense now. Seeking progressive videos seemed to have improved as well, but I was still experiencing some buggy behavior when continuously scrubbing a progressive video.
New Flash Community Developments: Robotlegs and Signals
I've come to realize that I'm always a bit hesitant to change. I was late to get a cell phone, late to join Facebook, late to join Twitter, and often late to look into developments within the Flash community. Lately I've been trying to change how often I tune into Flash community developments. As of late I've stumbled across two projects that struck my fancy: Robotlegs and Signals. Robotlegs is a lightweight MVCS architecture that is very focused on dependency injection. Signals is the result of Robert Penner's frustration with the Flash Player's native event system. Thus he has created an event system inspired by C# events and signals/aslots in Qt. Both looked like interesting projects so I decided to dive into them further. I'll start with robotlegs.