Question

Having had a quick look at the Flex docs I can’t seem to find any reference to providing audio content to be played from a custom (possibly encrypted – don’t worry, it’s not that evil) container format. Is this possible and if so, could someone point me in the right direction.

Or if that’s not possible, some way to hook into the disk/network (disk is much more important in this case) I/O of the sound playing mechanism to provide a supported container in memory from a custom wrapper.

Answer 1

A flash.media.Sound must either be:

• constructed/loaded with a URLRequest,
• inherit its data through embedding

There currently is no provision for directly piping mp3 (or aac, or video) data to a any “media” object, such as Sound. You can only get the Sound object to download the data for itself. There are people who are upset about this, including myself; you are not alone!

I say “at this stage” because it’s not unthinkable that Adobe will update the API to make this possible in a future version. For the now, you’re best to go with the decoding-to-a-dynamic-sound workaround mentioned by Juan, if you really need to be able to do this.

And post a feature request at Adobe’s bug tracker, or vote on an existing one!