If you need a standard flash videoplayer, then the FLVPlayback component is the right thing for you.

Just create a new FLA and drag&drop a FVLPlayback component from the components library into a movieclip in your library, export it for actionscript and compile the SWC.

All the functionallity stuff is already handled by adobe. But that's where I got stuck for quite some
time. I needed a player, that used the forwardButton and backButton for switching the videos (and not seeking forward and back).

The answer was really simple: Just override the functions once the component loaded its skin:

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