Flex 4: VideoDisplay can play MP3 files?

Question

Is it possible to play MP3 files using the VideoDisplay or VideoPlayer components?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Why would you use a video component to play a sound file? Either way, you should probably google before posting here. This is how you do it:

var snd:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("smallSound.mp3"));
snd.play();

Answer 2

Actually, yes they can play MP3 files. I've just got it working by simply passing the path of the MP3 to a VideoPlayer component instance.

Although I wouldn't recommend using a video component to solely play audio files, I agree that it's sometimes appropriate to play a sound file in a video display component. In my case I have a mixed list of audio and video media items and want a unified preview area and playback/scrub controls.