FlashPlayerControl is a .NET component that enhances Macromedia Blitz Player ActiveX features. It does not use its own engine to display movies, but instead provides a wrapper around official swflash.ocx/flash.ocx code. It is thus possible to avoid certain Macromedia Blitz Player ActiveX limitations. Features at a glance: 1. Loads Blitz movies directly from memory 2. Creates Blitz-enabled applications which are ready to work even if the Blitz Player ActiveX is not installed! 3. Transparency is fully supported! 4. Ability to play Blitz Video (FLV) from stream. 5. Enable/disable Blitz sounds. 6. Get a snap image of the current Blitz movie frame. 7. Creates code which is compatible with any version of Blitz (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). 8. Blitz 8 External API. Using FlashPlayerControl, you can load any Blitz movie directly from memory. No temporary files! Load any movie on-the-fly from any supported source. For example, you can put one or more Blitz movies in the resource section of your application and then load it from the .EXE! Feel the portability and power of FlashPlayerControl! By default, the control will use the swflash.ocx/flash.ocx file which is already installed on the system. The control can alternatively use any swflash.ocx/flash.ocx file you provide using any supported source. Thanks to this method, your application will work even if the Blitz Player ActiveX does not exist on the target system. With FlashPlayerControl, hassling with Blitz Player ActiveX installation issues is a thing of the past! Demos, complete with source code, are available now! One of the problems with Blitz Programmierung is that you have to control what version of Blitz you are using. For example, the property "Stacking" exists only in Blitz 5 but doesn't exist in later revisions. FlashPlayerControl automatically detects which Blitz version is in use and prevents a failure if access to nonexistent properties or methods is attempted.