videoDisplay metadatareceiced ready totaltime - apache-flex

I'm building a video player that run's FLVs and cannot overcome the fact that flex foes not fire the metadataReceived event sometimes. Sometimes it does and sometimes it does not.
therefore the total time of the FLV remains -1.
I understand its a known bug , I'm researching about it for a long time now , but could not find a good workaround by now, found one that says to set the buffer time to 0 and try that, but it's also does not work.
Does anyone has a good workaround for this?

What is your bufferTime property set to when you initialize the player? Try setting it to 0?

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Is there a wait function in GML?

I've been trying to make my code work for some time, but I can't seem to find a way to make it work, specifically, I can't find a way to make an object wait in an if statement or find a viable alternative to one.
Essentially, I've been trying to make a game object move to the right for 2 seconds, and then go back to it's original coordinates once that movement is finished.
I'm pretty new to GML, but I figured something such as x += 2 was what i was searching for in terms of moving the object to the right. However, I can't find a way to make said object execute x +=2 only once once pressing the control button (because it keeps sliding to the right as long as I press it, it doesn't just make a swift movement to the right), then wait in place for 2 seconds. I've tried making if statements as intricate as I could make them, but to no avail.
If anyone has any idea, i'm excitedly open to it.
Have a good day.
You are probably looking for a timer, to let the object wait before an action. In that case, this question may help: Delay time in GMS2
I would not recommend your current approach (using a while loop to wait until the timer is finished), as that will put all the code and actions in the object event on hold until that while function is done.
You should also look up the difference between a button 'press', and a button 'pressed'.
When it's press, it'll do the action as long as the button is hold.
when it's pressed, it'll only do the action once when the button is pressed and released.
I found a way to swiftly do it by creating a timer thanks to a while statement, yes they exist; even though it's not written in the game maker manual, which is a relief but also a pain to deduce how it works in there sometimes.
while (timer > 0 && timer < numberofframesyouwanttheactiontogoonfor)
{
timer++
break;
}

Here SDK PositionSimulator - Issue, or surprising behaviour, if the signal is temporarily lost (in the file)

I'm using a GPX file which contains one point having the network source, the other points come from the gps satellite source. When playing the file and getting this 'network point', then the OnPositionChanged Listener is not triggered during 20 seconds (it should consider that the signal is still the same), I lose the next points and my app considers that the signal is lost during 20 seconds.
This behaviour comes up when playing the file without navigation, it also comes up when navigating, ...but it doesn't occur when the navigation has been launched and it is stopped. In this case, the position of the points after the network point is got normally without the 20s delay.
HERE Developer Support, could you please investigate?
Try please new 3.14 version there is fix some delays in PositioningManager. Some suggestion: if possible use please only LocationMethod.GPS during navigation and LocationMethod.GPS_NETWORK at all other cases. This suggestion works for PositionSimulator too.

FLV video shows wrong playhead time

I am recording FLV videos with Red5 server and playing them back in a Flex app. I am aware that Red5 does not properly inject the FLV MetaData, so I am using an external commandline tool to get the metadata in there.
Because I am injecting the metadata, my duration of the video is correct.
The problem I am having, and this is true with all FLV players I try to play the video with (even 3rd party stand-alone video players), is the PlayHead time is never started at 0. When I load up the FLV to play and lets say the video is 10 seconds long, the current time label on the playhead starts at 1-2seconds instead of 0 and the horizontal slider current time indicator also is moved away from 0 and is set to 1-2 seconds along the slidebar. the video plays back fine from what I can see though.
Is there a byte in the FLV that I need to change so that it will start the playhead at 0? I realize this is probably something to do with Red5, so if anyone has any work-arounds or potential things to watch out for that may be causing this, I would really appreciate it!
Just to update this in case someone else encounters this, it turned out that the version of Red5 I was using (0.9 I believe) was the issue. I upgraded to 1.0RC1 and immediately the video timeline was corrected to 0.00 - 10.00 (assuming it was a 10 second video).
I was afraid to upgrade to 1.0RC1 because I feared the java app I created would encounter issues with the upgrade since I developed it on an earlier version and read so many posts about things not working with upgrading.. but I guess I got lucky, it works perfectly!

AVAudioPlayer : Short sound does not play randomly

I am using AVAudioPlayer.
I have a short sound in my application.
Randomly it does not play , Play API does not return any error,
Volume is also proper that moment. I am not getting what is going wrong.
Interesting thing is If I play some other sound file, It does play properly every time.
Then I did check properties of both the sound files.
The both the sound files have same bit rate, only difference is
The one which does not play randomly has 00.02 duration.
and the one which play properly has 00.00 duration.
Can anybody give me idea to fix this issue?.

Problems with the Enterframe Event

I have been developing a game using Flex, and used the Timer class to keep the main loop going.
However, when I tried using the enterFrame event to do the main loop, there were a few problems.
First of all, physics simulation seemed way too fast. Is the enterFrame event called more than once per frame? I set the application's global frame rate to 24, so shouldn't the application set off the event every 1/24 of a second?
And the second problem is that when the game runs like this, some MXML components that are added are not shown. I have absolutely no idea why this happens.
Help me please?!?
Thanks.
Don't count on the framerate to be even, or that the enterframe is called at a fixed interval. Even the timer-class isn't 100% accurate.
When doing timings, always use the delta between frame-updates and use that delta for your calculations. Also be sure to put in a safe-guard that the delta never exceeds some value to avoid strange behavior when the flash application freezes up for some unexpected reason.
This article explains it all perfectly:
http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/
The framerate is a desired value. If a user runs it on a slow machine, you might experience their output to be too slow. How about reverting to the good old
setInterval?

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