In a joint effort, and as previously stated on this very blog, our friends at the NFB and the folks here at Turbulent Media are now making the popular NFB player available for free for anyone seeking to display videos with flash.
The player is available as a compiled swf and is meant for basic [...]
“Why build yet another video player?” you ask. Pyro only integrates the core logic of playing video using flash. Yea, sure, you can build your own thing using NetStream/NetConnection, hey , that’s basically what Pyro does and that’s what professionnals do. They do it over and over again. So why waste time with all the same problems like size handling, duration, bandwidth detection, etc? It’s from this question that Pyro was born.
