title: Play video from local file using Adobe AIR
body: <p>I'd like to play videos, as well as display images and possibly other flash content using adobe air, and reading from the local file system. I've been searching APIs and I have not yet been able to connect the dots.</p>
  
  <p>I know of <strong>flash.filesystem.File</strong> and <strong>flash.filesystem.FileStream</strong> and have experimented with loading and reading files. I believe I can load images this way but haven't tried.</p>
  
  <p>As for video:</p>
  
  <p><strong>mx.controls.VideoDisplay</strong> 
  - seems to accept a file:// URI for source, but I can't get it to work.</p>
  
  <p><strong>flash.media.Video</strong>
  - accepts a NetStream or can load video directly from a video input, can't seem to find a way to reference a local file</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help me out here? I specifically want to load and play video directly off the local disk, not from a web server or a streaming file server... assume no network connectivity.</p>
  
  <p>Slightly related question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/199746/loading-a-video-from-the-local-file-system">Loading a video from the local file system…</a> (but my question does not involve a web browser)</p>