StageVideo and HTML Overlays

You can use HTML overlays with StageVideo to display UI elements in the Flash display list video plane. This plane is above the StageVideo plane, so StageVideo always displays behind any Flash display list elements.

HTML overlays are UI elements that you can display in the Flash display plane on video that is rendered by StageVideo on its own plane. Before Flash 15, you could not use HTML overlays when hardware acceleration was not available. Starting in Flash 15, HTML overlays display when StageVideo falls back to software rendering.

Consider the following information:

• In Flash Player 15:

  • You can use HTML overlays whether hardware acceleration is available.
  • To use HTML overlays, set wmode to opaque.

• In Flash Player 14:

  • When hardware acceleration is available, StageVideo resides below the Flash display list, so you can use HTML overlays.
  • When hardware acceleration is not available, video is rendered on top of all other elements in the browser, which prevents the use of HTML overlays.

Here are the minimum browser requirements to use HTML overlays with StageVideo:

• Firefox version 4 and later

• Safari version 4 and later

• Internet Explorer:

  • Version 9+ on Windows 7 and later
  • Version 10+ on Windows XP

• Chrome version 26 and later

  IMPORTANT

  Chrome Pepper on Windows XP and Windows Vista is not supported.