To display an image for 2 seconds before your video starts you'll need to use a TemporalProxyElement to apply a duration to your ImageElement.

 
var temporalProxyElement:TemporalProxyElement
     = new TemporalProxyElement(2,
				               new ImageElement(new ImageLoader(),
					       new URLResource(THUMB_URL))
					      );
 

Full Code

 
package {
	import flash.display.Sprite;
 
	import org.osmf.composition.SerialElement;
	import org.osmf.containers.MediaContainer;
	import org.osmf.image.ImageElement;
	import org.osmf.image.ImageLoader;
	import org.osmf.layout.LayoutUtils;
	import org.osmf.media.DefaultMediaFactory;
	import org.osmf.media.MediaElement;
	import org.osmf.media.MediaFactory;
	import org.osmf.media.MediaPlayer;
	import org.osmf.media.URLResource;
	import org.osmf.proxies.TemporalProxyElement;
	import org.osmf.utils.URL;
 
	[SWF(width="400", height="300", frameRate="25")]
	public class ShrelpBurst extends Sprite
	{
		private var mediaFactory:MediaFactory;
		private var mediaElement:MediaElement;
		private var mediaPlayer:MediaPlayer;
		private var mediaContainer:MediaContainer;
 
		private static var VIDEO_URL:URL = new URL("http://www.marinelayerproductions.com/_uploads/news/portugal_killer_heat.flv");
		private static var THUMB_URL:URL = new URL("http://www.marinelayerproductions.com/_uploads/news/large/midnight_blue_04_00000.jpg");
 
		private var _pause:Sprite;
		private var _play:Sprite;
 
		public function ShrelpBurst()
		{
			mediaFactory = new DefaultMediaFactory();
			var serialElement:SerialElement = new SerialElement();
			var temporalProxyElement:TemporalProxyElement = new TemporalProxyElement(2,
																	new ImageElement(new ImageLoader(),
																	new URLResource(THUMB_URL))
																	);
			serialElement.addChild( temporalProxyElement );
			mediaElement 		 = mediaFactory.createMediaElement( new URLResource(VIDEO_URL));
			serialElement.addChild( mediaElement );
 
			mediaPlayer 		 = new MediaPlayer();
			mediaPlayer.autoPlay = true;
			mediaPlayer.media 	 = serialElement;
			mediaContainer 		 = new MediaContainer();
			mediaContainer.addMediaElement( serialElement );
 
			addChild( mediaContainer );
 
			LayoutUtils.setAbsoluteLayout(mediaElement.metadata, 400, 300, 0, 0);
		}
 
	}
}
 

On the left Ramp Moffett

On the right Street Moffett

That was round one, leave your vote in the comments and pass the link on to a friend.

Check out the article
Veoh to Bring Behavior to Video Ads

svn copy $R/trunk $R/branch/feature1

Okay if your sold on Environmental Variables this is how you do it.

1. Look in "/Users/your-user-name" for a .profile or .bash_login file. If you have both then open up .bash_login or if you have neither create a .profile file.
2. In that file you can use the export command to set all the variables you need. Each of these variables should be in uppercase.

   export W=/Users/jspooner/Documents/veoh/FlashPlayer/branches/wolverine
   export T=/Users/jspooner/Documents/veoh/FlashPlayer/tags
   export B=/Users/jspooner/Documents/veoh/FlashPlayer/branches
   export SVNROOT=http://repo/svn/src/FlashPlayer/
   

You can also use alias and functions to do other task like open and close projects. Here are some of the other shortcuts I have.

## Open my current project
alias wolverine="cd /Users/jspooner/Documents/veoh/FlashPlayer/branches/wolverine && pwd && echo WELCOME TO WOLVERINE"
# mate
alias edithost="mate /private/etc/hosts"

alias stopmysql="sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist"
alias startmysql="sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist"
#
# # functions
# # change directories. echo PWD and show a list
cdd () { cd ${1}; echo $PWD; ls; }

If your having issues and had Flex Beta installed check out these instructions from adobe. The worked for me when upgrading from Beta 2 to Beta 3.

What is a host file? Lets say your editing website locally and would like to bypass any security errors caused by the localhost url. You can use the host file to redirect the real url "www.jonathanspooner.com" to point at your local copy.

I also added a short cut to my profile document so I can just type 'host' in terminal and TextMate will open the doc.
To do this create a file named .profile in your users directory "/Users/yourusername/" and bash script like the one below. I have a few other handy shortcuts in there too.

alias host="mate /private/etc/hosts"

Google search for Rocky Dennis.

Go digg the post

" I sent you a mulimedia message. You can view my message via the internet at viewmymessage.com using Msg ID w392gvgmn Password ors9vhem"

If that isn't horrible user experience look at the website where you can read your message. They have about an 800 pixel wide
page and they squish the message into a 150 pixel wide box at less than 8 point type.

Yeah, Congratulations AT&T, you guys rock!

Here is a link to the bug at php.net

Wordpress uses xmlrpc and there is a hack to correct the bug. The fix is to add the following line at the top of thte xmlrpc.php file.

$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents("php://input");

I'm looking for a fix to the revver video api. If you find something let me know.
I'll update this post when I find the fix too.

Is this good functionality? Are people really unable to dial the phone number their selves? I think click-to-call is a good way to boost your phone call conversions. Hey and it also lets us web people track how many people make that call.

You can read more here.
Yardley

I just updated Dreamweaver to version 8.0.2 and there is not an option to not rewrite document relative paths. From your manage sites menu select a site to edit. In the bottom of the left column click on templates. You will want to then uncheck the checkbox that says "Don't rewrite document relative paths".

Matisyahu

The purpose of this beta test is to make sure that all previous flash sites still work in the new player. Go get it and participate.

Macromedia - Flash Player : Macromedia Flash Player Public Beta

I thought that I would have all of this free time once I gradguated but it has been quite the opposite. I have been working with ActionScript 2.0 a lot lately. I also found all of the seceret objects such as the movie_mc.tween() and movie_mc.scaleTo(); The rumor is that they will all be released in version 8. I also just installed the beta version of the Flash Player 8 ( Maelstorm ). Go get it for your self.