Video caching... what really happens???
September 25, 2006 12:00 AM
I don't know that I'm a flash guru yet but I'm working on it :) I do have a video player that functions the same as the mp3 player (the controls load first, then it streams in the video). It's built in flash which is great because you can customize the look and feel BUT since it's built in flash it can only dynamically load .flv files - I really wish Adobe would let us load a few more. So again you are stuck with people needing to update their flash player to version 8. If you want to target an earlier version of the flash player you can embed your videos in .swf files and use a player to load those in (no streaming but you would at least have a progress bar so the user knew how much had loaded)but you would loose quality and have fairly large files. If you want to try a way other than the flash route you can use external HTML objects to embed the quicktime player or windows media player in your course and use that for video playback which should allow you to stream in your video files. Those are just a few ideas - by the way, what format are your videos in? Maybe if I knew what format you were trying to display I could come up with some other options. Hope that helps.Edited By: Hemingway on 2006-10-4 13:2:26
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