So I'm going to try and make a custom video player for work. It's going to be streaming from a third party service, and I want it to be the only .SWF file that plays videos for the whole site. So I need to be able to pass it variables and all of that fun stuff.

Nothing earth shattering to some of you guys, I'm sure.

Here's my question, considering I want total control over the UI, and I'm pretty decent at AS2 and abysmal at AS3, what path do you think I should go down?

• Customize one of the existing players/components (are there AS2 components?)
• Create my own (is it that hard? Seems pretty straightforward)
• Is there some 3rd party tool kit for doing this (which I doubt, but thought I'd ask)