Flash Video Progressive Download

I would like to us a flash video in a web page, and don't
want to use streaming. If I use the Flash Video Encoder to make a
medium quality video that is about six minutes long, will
progressive download work okay, or is it too long to work without
problems? If this is too long, what would be a good maximum length
to use?

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:50:39 +0000 (UTC), "MontyC"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I would like to us a flash video in a web page, and don't
want to use
>streaming. If I use the Flash Video Encoder to make a
medium quality video that
>is about six minutes long, will progressive download work
okay, or is it too
>long to work without problems? If this is too long, what
would be a good
>maximum length to use?
This is an incorrect question. Length itself (duration) does
not
matter. Only bitrate does. Check your video bitrate and
evaluate your
channel bandwidth.
Progressive download has two big disadvantages against
streaming:
- it takes all available channel bandwidth regardless to the
video
bitrate. It may cause problems at the client side;
- it does not allow quick navidation across the video unless
it will
be completely downloaded to the user's computer.
If you'd like to avoid such problems and you have a
webhosting with
PHP (or like that), then you could try to use so called HTTP
Streaming, which resolves both of these issues without
special server
usage. You can find some information here:
http://home.openworldpresenter.com/flash/index.php?pid=43

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On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:50:39 +0000 (UTC), "MontyC"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I would like to us a flash video in a web page, and don't
want to use
>streaming. If I use the Flash Video Encoder to make a
medium quality video that
>is about six minutes long, will progressive download work
okay, or is it too
>long to work without problems? If this is too long, what
would be a good
>maximum length to use?
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when stalling/loading (eg like youtube and millions of other online
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1. Creating the flv using Flash Video Encoder results in a
40MB flv. I then insert the flv into my page in dreamweaver. The dw
tools pop up and I choose progressive download and my skin etc. The
resulting page plays the video fine but there's no progress bar or
loading stripes when the video is loading/stalling.
2. Inserting the video into a flash file and creating a swf
which is then inserted into the html page - as per the instructions
by media247 on this page:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=12&catid=189&threadid =1332318
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Josh

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