Forgot to make a note about probably the coolest site I’ve worked on, ontheboards.tv. It launched three weeks ago and seems to be doing well. It survived the first weekend even with an article in the New York Times about the site. It was neat to work on a large scale project with lots of custom functionality. The site may look pretty simple, but there is quite a bit happening behind the scenes.
One thing we discovered while developing the media player is the FLVPlayback component doesn’t always raise the Buffering/Playing/PausedStateEntered events when those states are entered. Makes it difficult to properly handle those situations when you don’t know you are in them. Turns out if you use the StateChange event and check the event state, you always know what state the FLVPlayback component is in. No idea why that happens, but if you find yourself building a custom video player, keep that in mind.
Edit: Turns out On the Boards found this post and linked it on their blog. In the interest of providing some more details I wrote another post to compliment this one.
[...] helped us get the videos up on OntheBoards.tv. Earlier today he posted a little something about the playback component on the site. Interested in tech? Head there to learn a little about what makes OntheBoards.tv tick [...]