Another good video from 360|Flex is Advanced State Management by Troy Gardner. If you are not familiar with concepts of states and state machines you should definitely watch it. Even if you are, the guy says some interesting things there. The only thing I don’t quite agree is his implementation of a state machine. I liked what he said about video players and NetConnection dispatching same events meaning different things in different “states” though. I experienced that a lot and in fact used a state machine in my custom video player.

This video doesn’t load from the Web too (at least for me), so use Adobe media Player to watch it.

Error: Error #2154: The NetStream Object is invalid.  This may be due to a failed NetConnection.
at flash.net::NetStream/get info()
at com.wreckbmedia.adobeTV.flash.view::TvPlayer/startBWTest()
at com.wreckbmedia.adobeTV.flash.view::TvPlayer/go()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at org.openvideoplayer.media::MediaPlayer/onPlayheadTimer()
at flash.utils::Timer/_timerDispatch()
at flash.utils::Timer/tick()

First time when I heard about Adobe Open Source Media Framework I didn’t really understand what it was about. So I’ve never researched deeper into it. But after I watched this video presentation from MAX (yes, I’m slow, watching 1-2 videos a day) I can sign under every word the guys say. Some time soon I’ll download current release and play with it. And I’m sure I’ll be an active user and contributor.

Last year I spent developing a custom video players framework in which I partly succeeded. I got like 60% of main features working with a cool IoC and MVC framework. But one busy developer definitely wasn’t enough to build and fully test complete framework. I faced a lot of challenges and problems. Seriously, sometimes I hated Adobe for such weird things like NetConnection and NetStream.

Now I see the great job the guys did with OSMF. This project is like 3 years late and could have saved me a lot of time.