Simple Mute and Unmute SWF with External FLV using Actionscript 3.0 AS3

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I had such a hard time finding out how to do this simple task that I figured others have had the same difficulty. Here's some simple AS3 code that performs a mute and unmute of an external FLV.

I have a FLV file that is progressively streaming to my SWF from an httpd server. The instance name of that FLV is myPlayer. You can see that I simply set that instance's volume property to 0 or 1 (0% or 100% volume - mute or unmute). I originally was chasing soundMixer properties which were muting the "container" SWF, not the FLV. There might be a better way to do this but this seemed pretty small and lightweight for what I wanted. 

import fl.video.VideoEvent; //import the video gunk
 
// add a mouse click event listener to our mute_btn button symbol
mute_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, muteIt);
 
        // set up our mute/unmute function
	function muteIt(event:MouseEvent):void {
 
                // check to see if we're already muted or not
                // in this case, we're not muted
 
		if (myPlayer.volume == 1) {
 
                // so set the volume to 0 - muted
		myPlayer.volume = 0;
			}
                //otherwise we determine that we're muted
                //and thus we need to unmute (vol to 1 = 100%)
 
		else {
		myPlayer.volume = 1;
			}
	}