Preloading a video

If I use something like "member("myVideo").preLoad()" to get
a video
loaded, is there any way to determine it's loading progress?
I'd like
to show a progress bar as it's loading, but I don't know how
to tell how
far along it is in its loading process.
Thanks,
Matt

Is this for the web or for a projector? If this is for a
projector then
there's no need to preload. The only thing that will be
preloaded will
be the header information. That's something like 130 bytes
and so it's
meaningless. Director uses a guest application, QT, windows
media, Real
player, to play video. The video file streams through
Director on it's
way to the guest player. The more available memory, the
smoother the
playback will be. You may want to purge as much memory as
possible
before you play a video, but with most computers having 512
meg to 1 gig
of memory, this isn't really a problem anymore.
If you are working with a shockwave file from the web, QT
video will
stream from the server in much the same way as it will from a
local CD
source. Look at tech note tn_14016 for more info on that.
Rob
Rob Dillon
Adobe Community Expert
http://www.ddg-designs.com
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