A pretty common thing to do with Flash is to play an FLV file. In ActionScript 2.0, you would do the following:

1. Create a new Video object in your Library (choose New Video from the Library’s Options menu).
2. Drag the video onto the Stage, and give it an instance name.
3. Add the following code to frame 1 of your document:

// ActionScript 2.0
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
 
ns.onMetaData = function(item:Object):Void  {
 trace("metaData");
 // Resize video instance.
 myVideo._width = item.width;
 myVideo._height = item.height;
 // Center video instance on Stage.
 myVideo._x = (Stage.width-myVideo._width)/2;
 myVideo._y = (Stage.height-myVideo._height)/2;
};
 
ns.onCuePoint = function(item:Object):Void  {
 trace("cuePoint");
 trace(item.name+"\t"+item.time);
};
 
myVideo.attachVideo(ns);
ns.play("http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/video/cuepoints.flv");

That will play your video and also trace a couple cuepoints. Sample file: Load video with ActionScript 2.0

It’s kind of cool in ActionScript 3.0 in that you can open an empty AS3 FLA file, paste this code onto frame 1 of your document, and you’re off to the races (meaning, that’s all you have to do). As you can see, the code isn’t that much different either - so if you added video in AS2, things should seem pretty familiar. This is the same thing as above — it will also play a video and trace some cuepoints.

// ActionScript 3.0
 
var video:Video = new Video();
addChild(video);
 
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
 
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
ns.client = {onMetaData:ns_onMetaData, onCuePoint:ns_onCuePoint};
 
video.attachNetStream(ns);
ns.play("http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/video/cuepoints.flv");
 
function ns_onMetaData(item:Object):void {
 trace("metaData");
 // Resize video instance.
 video.width = item.width;
 video.height = item.height;
 // Center video instance on Stage.
 video.x = (stage.stageWidth - video.width) / 2;
 video.y = (stage.stageHeight - video.height) / 2;
}
 
function ns_onCuePoint(item:Object):void {
 trace("cuePoint");
 trace(item.name + "\t" + item.time);
}

Sample file: Load video with ActionScript 3.0