Flash file size

Hi there,
This is really just a general question but when would you
decide that your Flash site is too big to load as one movie and
split it up into external swfs? For example how many KB's would you
let your site get up to before you start making some pages into
their own movies? Or now that everyone seems to be using broadband
can you have much bigger movies?
Thanks.

75 minutes of video at high quality really doesn't cater to
small file sizes. You are going to have
to experiment with various amounts of compression for the
"perfect" balance between quality and what
is acceptable for a movie of that duration. It's kind of an
oxy-moron to expect to get such a long
AVI to a small files size at high quality. I have never
attempted anything of the length so hard for
me to say. Maybve some one else here has similar experience.
You didn't mention any compression formats you are trying.
Are you exporting to FLV?
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MelH wrote:
> I am trying to take an educational video approximately
75 minutes from AVI to
> flash - I am trying to keep the resolution as best I can
but the file size is
> still 500MB is there a better way? Thanks Mel
>

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my users demand high quality videos - however when they are
saved they are 33megs in size - is this too large?
Does anyone have a solution for achieving high quality at a
smaller file size? what is the max recommended file size?
thanks
g

oggabey wrote:
> my users demand high quality videos - however when they
are saved they are
> 33megs in size - is this too large?
> Does anyone have a solution for achieving high quality
at a smaller file size?
> what is the max recommended file size?
Well, many sites where videos are big part of the entire
concept, are big. Bigger than 33megs.
Question here is how long is the video? Could be 2 seconds
then 33 is way too much.
3 minutes and 33 megs, very good !
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Which flash files?

I encoded some footage in adobe media encoder, around 3 - 5 minutes long. I turned the footage into flash files.
the format was flv, sorenson spark, 15fps
the flash file size was approx 20 meg after the encoder had done its job.
I upload it to my server and everyone in the usa and canada can play it but the people in europe and the uk cannot play it. it loads in the beginning but grinds to a halt after 10 - 15 seconds. then the footage catches up with the buffer and the footage stops.
it is not the download speed because they can watch mlb.com or other streaming hi def footage that is located on servers in the USA , it only seems to be the files that I am using? they all have fast , modern computers.
I have tried absolutey everything, mac, pc, server, different server, different players, no player, play in the day time, play in the night time, in a folder by itself, no folder...... you can imagine!
does anyone have any idea what could cause these files todo this in the UK and Europe? there is absolutely no issue what so ever in the usa?the files play perfectly in the USA.
This issue is a two week trouble shoot so far so i would be extremely grateful if someone could point me in a direction that makes some sense.
thank you in advance ' i am not worthy, i am not worthy etc'
francis

ava4celtic wrote:
I upload it to my server and everyone in the usa and canada can play it but the people in europe and the uk cannot play it. it loads in the beginning but grinds to a halt after 10 - 15 seconds. then the footage catches up with the buffer and the footage stops.
it is not the download speed because they can watch mlb.com or other streaming hi def footage that is located on servers in the USA , it only seems to be the files that I am using? they all have fast , modern computers.
I have tried absolutey everything, mac, pc, server, different server, different players, no player, play in the day time, play in the night time, in a folder by itself, no folder...... you can imagine!
does anyone have any idea what could cause these files todo this in the UK and Europe? there is absolutely no issue what so ever in the usa?the files play perfectly in the USA.
This issue is a two week trouble shoot so far so i would be extremely grateful if someone could point me in a direction that makes some sense.
thank you in advance ' i am not worthy, i am not worthy etc'
francis
Have you ever actually pinged your server from overseas? A lot of the larger sites have faster connections than the average shared host. Plus they are the only site on their server, where you could potentially be sharing the server with a lot of other sites.
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