Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutt
that makes sense but why not just dump the video into Flash and do the mouseover code in Actionscript and output as a self contained SWF file to embed on the web page?
|
I tend to think down-the-line type of scenario. Where as creating a self contained SWF is the easiest and quickest right now. Six months from now it might not hold up under new circumstances or in a different situation. I always try to go down the path that is more future proof. Specially with Flash too. It's just going down the drain so fast these days. jQuery and HTML5 are the future.
What if in a year you change it to have controls, or something else in the player? You have to rebuild however many SWF files one by one. Instead of just rebuilding that one single SWF player. Could be a number of things too with that logic. Any little change like a sparkly flash when the video starts, etc anything you can imagine - would be rebuilding every single one ever made instead of the one single player file. Or what if someone else took over the project. Anyone can make videos in FLV format and upload them. But not everyone could take a .fla Flash Project and go rebuilding new self contained SWFs in Flash. Even people with step by step instructions can screw that up.