@zhangxm Thanks a lot for your reply. To be fair, my issues are likely caused by my ignorance of the newer Visual Studio Express 2013, not by cocos2d-xv3.x. I got quite frustrated trying to compile my project when using the ui stuff (like the said VideoPlayer). The thread is this: Cocos2dx v3.0 UI Classes - gotta get this workign
I love the new API and the C++11 support, but I’m feeling that this branch is still too experimental for serious applications, so I think I’ll wait a bit and stick to cocos2d-xv2.x for the time being 