FLV movies now poor quality

Hi All,
I'm really struggling with this. In the past using DWCS3 I
have embedded FLV movie files into websites without a problem. For
example,
http://www.davehollington.co.uk/Video/video%20strangers.html
However, no matter what I do now with DWCS4, whenever I
embedd an FLV movie, the playback quality is jerky and poor. For
example,
http://www.cupcakemakeandbake.co.uk/lookatus/ourvideos.html
Even if I embed the first movie into a new page, it results
in a jerky (as if frames are skipping) playback.
I am not doing anything different. So, can anyone tell me if
they experience the same issue or even what I can do to resolve it?
Cheers.

Wodehouse posted in macromedia.dreamweaver
> Hi All,
>
> I'm really struggling with this. In the past using DWCS3
I have
> embedded FLV
> movie files into websites without a problem. For
example,
>
http://www.davehollington.co.uk/Video/video%20strangers.html
>
> However, no matter what I do now with DWCS4, whenever I
embedd an
> FLV movie,
> the playback quality is jerky and poor. For example,
>
http://www.cupcakemakeandbake.co.uk/lookatus/ourvideos.html
It isn't DW, but a combination of how you compressed the
video, the
speed of your Web servers, the speed of your (my) connection,
and all
the connections in between.
In my case, both of those videos paused for buffering.
FWIW, I see you compressed cupcakemakeandbake_VP6_512K.flv
with:
Video: 364 Kbps
Audio: 128 Kbps
For a total 492 K throughput rate. For my connection (basic
cable,
typically 5 MB), I get my best results when I compress for a
total of
300 Kbps. Likewise for my clients, though I send those
through a
streaming server.
And even though strangersinthenight.flv is compressed at a
much higher
rate, my connection to davehollington.co.uk (talk-101) is
much faster
than my connection to cupcakemakeandbake.co.uk (123-reg) -
today. In
fact, my tracert to cupcakemakeandbake.co.uk timed out at 30
hops twice
while writing this.
Suggestion:
Try compressing the videos to a lower total throughput rate
with the
software you're using to create the .flv files.
You could also try a test with the cupcake video on your
davehollington.co.uk server to see if it is running from a
better host.
I can tell you that my connection to cupcakemakeandbake.co.uk
from here
California isn't ideal at this moment.
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

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