I'm currently working with Live Media Streaming (Adobe's RTMP to be exact, FLV streaming, etc)

I kind of have a solution for playing the content; although it's hard to have much control over it - because I'm using the ActiveX extension.

I was wondering if anyone was aware of an extension to play RTMP streams?

There is a Flash player which will play it (JW FLV Player) - and at the moment, I'm using the Activex extension to load the JW FLV Player; then playing the content through that by pre-setting flashvars with the path to the content, although I'm having one hell of a time trying to find out if the content is Buffering, Playing, Stopped or Idle (There are FlashVars you retrieve get for that - but I can't work out how to get them)

I guess my questions are:

Is there an extension which will play streaming flv, and allow you to have control of stopping/starting the content and find out of it's playing or buffering (status)?

If not, does anyone know how to use the ActiveX extension to get FlashVars from a FlashMovie? (http://code.jeroenwijering.com/trac/wiki/FlashVars eg, some of the ones listed here)

I tried the "GetFlashVars" expression, but alas, it didn't work