I stumbled upon a great actionscript blog and discovered a pretty amazing Actionscript 3 Flash application. Simply, it dynamically encodes a JPEG from a playing FLV (Flash video) file and allows you to either save it to the server or to your own computer. Have a look at the project page for more details. This is just one small yet very cool reason why Actionscript 3 is going to dramatically change what can be done on the web. I have begun to slowly delve into AS3 and I am pretty amazed at the possibilities.
Not to beat a dead horse, but anti-flash standardistas, try doing that with AJAX.
