Hot to apply a loading text before the video-streaming begins - object

Question

I am working in a project for the front-side.
We have a flash player showing a live video game from external. We have the access by api provided from a third part.
Everything works fine but the big issue now is how to display a simple text "loading" before the stream video starts, this is very necessary because the video delays a bit at the beginning.
I am newbie on it and have made a big search to find something helpful.
I have found a good documentation here and in this page explaining well to how to get external content into my SWF file. But my question is how can i edit my The FlashVars parameter of the HTML when the data is provided by an api?
<div id="flashContent">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="550" height="400" id="FlashVars_AS2" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="FlashVars_AS3.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffff66">
<param name="play" value="true">
<param name="loop" value="true">
<param name="wmode" value="window">
<param name="scale" value="showall">
<param name="menu" value="true">
<param name="devicefont" value="false">
<param name="salign" value="">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="FlashVars" value="myVariable=Hello%20World&mySecondVariable=Goodbye">
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="FlashVars_AS3.swf" width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="FlashVars_AS2.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffff66">
<param name="play" value="true">
<param name="loop" value="true">
<param name="wmode" value="window">
<param name="scale" value="showall">
<param name="menu" value="true">
<param name="devicefont" value="false">
<param name="salign" value="">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="FlashVars" value="myVariable=Hello%20World&mySecondVariable=Goodbye">
<!--<![endif]-->
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash">
<img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player">
</a>
<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
</object>
</div>
Thus is the code used by example in the Adobe documentation but i can work on it if my data is provided from a third part and it's not a swf?
Hope my explanation is clear and sorry if it's not because i am not expert on it.
Good examples and different solutions are very welcome too
thanks

Answer 1

you should handle NetStatusEvent of your NetStream in video-player
someFunctionShowingLoadingMessage();
stream.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, streamStatusHandler);
private function streamStatusHandler(event:NetStatusEvent):void {
switch (event.info.code) {
case "NetConnection.Connect.Success":
break;
case "NetStream.Play.Start":
break;
case "NetStream.Buffer.Full":
// buffer is full and we may show video
// and hide our simple text "loading..."
break;
case "NetStream.Play.Stop":
break;
case "NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound":
break;
}
}