How to simulate stageVideo in FDT AIR Application for IOS

Question

I am trying to create an app that uses stageVideo and when testing on ipad device it is working fine, but when testing on desktop the STAGE_VIDEO_AVAILABILITY listener it is never AVAILABLE. I did put in the direct in the app.xml file. Any ideas how to configure the FDT to have stageVideo available?

Answer 1

There are aspects that you have to keep in mind:

• StageVideo is not supported on all platforms, ie on those without hardware acceleration. You can test on a newer machine if you have one to verify.
• Make sure you're running on AIR 3+.
• StageVideoAvailabilityEvent only fires when Stage.stageVideos property changes.
• If window transparency is set to true, then the window “falls back” to software rendering and blitting, see Main window properties documentation

Your case probably falls into one of the 4 scenarios.