Macromedia Flash ActiveX Control: load from stream

RadikalQ3: I didn't download the demos, as the solution is not free ;)

anorganix: I'll look into that. Looks promising :)

anorganix: the license is a little tricky, I'll have to check with my employer and let him decide if the license is acceptable (this will probably be on monday).

any other solutions are still welcome:
- I am firstly interested in directly using the macromedia flash activex control. If someone knows how to use the interfaces exposed therein (mainly for low-level access to the flash engine: get/set stream), is also welcomed to post :)

another idea that came into my mind: hooking the control. I think there might be a posibility to hook on the event that gets the network stream given an url (see SetGlobalOnLoadExternalResourceHandler on http://www.flashplayercontrol.com/delphi/help/index/how_to/play_flv_from_stream.html) They have done it somehow, so it's possible :)

I decided that this problem is a little more difficult than the usual, so if anyone comes up with a solution for using the macromedia flash activex control, I will increase the points for this question to 1000.

I accept any language: c/c++,delphi,visual basic,c#, etc: provided that the solution is
- uses directly the activex control (no paid sdk's or other 3rd party stuff)
- optional : it's free

Hi,

Unfortunately I don't know a freeware stuuf for this approach. But here is not very expensive but very usefull component:

TFlashPlayerControl
http://www.devarchive.com/f2372.html

Besides of all, there is obviously mentioned that it can read from streams.

Also, here is nice stuff:

Delphi SWF SDK
http://www.devarchive.com/f2631.html

So, update :)

@EugeneK-biruza:
- TFlashPlayerControl is the one I mentioned in the question ;)
- Delphi SWF SDK was  mentioned by anorganix
But thank you for your help. Much appreciated.

About my problem: I have found two possibilities:
1) using MovieData property of the activex control; they say this will do it, but noone sais how to do it (what is the data to be set for this property). My guess it could be encoded in some way. It could also be an xml file. I'm just guessing. I didn't find anything on the data type to be set for this property. Maybe you guys have an idea or you can find the answer :)
2) using some interfaces as described in this thread:
http://groups.google.ro/group/macromedia.open-swf/browse_thread/thread/131d5084eb425995/2bbd8e8c97141cc6?lnk=st&q=flash+activex+control+stream+OR+memory&rnum=22&hl=ro#2bbd8e8c97141cc6
Now, my COM knoledge is limited, close to zero. I understood what they talked about, but it would take me a week maybe even more, to implement it.

At this point, solution using
- MovieData looks to me as being a 500 points solution. I can raise that if the resulting implementation is tricky/complicated
- interfaces (see point 2), worths at least 1000 points in my opinion. Why?
a) I need it fast
b) I have no idea how to start implementing it (and I have over 7 years of delphi experience, just not COM)
c) I couldn't find anything on google about this
d) I only have time in weekends to work on my projects (due to my job), and this weekend is over, so next stop is in 5 days. This might be too much

I am not lazy, so I can settle for pointers on how to implement:
- url-s to examples showing how to implement and use those interfaces (see point 2)
- small examples for the above
- full example on how to implement it for similar (meaning not the flash control)
- other

Thank you again for you help :)

It's an idea, but not good for me because:
- it's pretty ugly/messy; people might start wondering "what's with that "blabla.exe" running? is that a trojan or something?"
- I need to have control (play,stop,forward,backward,onprogress,etc)
- since there is a clean way, I don't see why try "shooting a fly with a canon" ;)

But it is a good alternative to keep in mind for future issues that might not have a clean solution :D thanks.