I wasted something like 10 hours over three days struggling with Flash. The good news is that I have a decent player.

The Flash development program acts really weird when using the test movie feature and loading images from a web server. Even though the server was localhost I was seeing long delays and blinking when the images loaded. I wrote the viewer three times from scratch using three different methods. It turns out the problem was the way I was testing the movie. It acts strange in the development program, but runs fine when loading from a browser.

I learned a ton of actionscript in the process and V3 ended up being the cleanest code wise, so it wasn’t a total loss.

I’ll put this warning out there from anyone using Flash’s MovieClipLoader class or loading a movie from a website and getting inconsistent test results:
DON’T TEST IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. PUBLISH AND TEST IN A BROWSER.

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