Video caching... what really happens???
September 25, 2006 12:00 AM
I think it all depends on how you have your page set up. If you put both of the videos on the page and the actions on the buttons simply have the high or low bandwith video appear then I believe Lectora will actually try and load both of the videos and take forever to load the page. You might consider having the videos display in a (dare I say it) popup window. That way you know your initial page is just a page of links, and when one of them is clicked it will popup a window with only the one video you want to play. Another option is to use flash to handle the loading and streaming of the videos, but this would mean they would all havet to be compressed to flv's - the flash video format. If you're a ways into the project that may not be your best bet though.I think it all depends on how you have your page set up. If you put both of the videos on the page and the actions on the buttons simply have the high or low bandwith video appear then I believe Lectora will actually try and load both of the videos and take forever to load the page. You might consider having the videos display in a (dare I say it) popup window. That way you know your initial page is just a page of links, and when one of them is clicked it will popup a window with only the one video you want to play. Another option is to use flash to handle the loading and streaming of the videos, but this would mean they would all havet to be compressed to flv's - the flash video format. If you're a ways into the project that may not be your best bet though.
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