Streaming Captivate

I was just reading an article in an enewsletter Training Tech
Talk about streaming Captivate. It brought up some solutions that
others in this forum could use.
One suggestion was to make several movies that are 10 minutes
long each and have each movie play when the other ends. (That
suggestion may have been stated in this forum as well).
Another sugtestion is to use software that comverts swf files
to MP4 format. The address for this software is www.sothink.com and
the person who suggested it was very please with the results. He
records one hour long training sessions.
There is another software that converts swf files to video
and it is www.clipstream.com
"Another possibility is to re-code your pre-loader so that it
allows the user to begin watching content that is downloaded while
the rest continues to download," says Chad Ebel
([email protected]). He sets his Captivate files to load 15
percent before beginning to play. "With progressive downloading
occurring in the background, the user does not even realize it is
occurring."
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There is streaming video and then there is streaming video.
Please feel free to see Tom Green's demo and article on
incorporating true video (FLV) into Captivate projects.
Tom is the author of "Captivate Visual QuickStart Guide", and
is a recognized "expert" in all things streaming.
There are reasons you might want to use Tom's solution rather
than your own, but try it and you be the judge.
Have a great day - and welcome to the Captivate User
Community, petesg!!

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    Hi,
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  • Button in captivate to click wmv url to open in windows media player streaming windows xp

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  • Streaming from Flash Media Server into Captivate

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  • Captivate 5 will NOT play streaming video from my Flash Media Server

    Recently I have begun attempting to convert older projects to captivate 5. However, once I started loading the videos I quickly realized that they are not playing in captivate 5! I know that these videos stream from the server just fine as I have been running them with other products and I know that the paths are correct because I've been using a web player to test the paths of the videos that will not play. How do I get around the bugs in Captivate and get the video working?

    Looking at this issue, here is what I see:
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  • Multi-platform delivery of Adaptive Bit Rate Video Streaming Utilizing Captivate Video Player

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    I do not know much about captivate...But i will let you k now AMS perspective( I hope it adds value)
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    I'm guessing it's h.264 mp4, but I haven't been able to get it to stream. Can you stream mp4s from Amazon S3?

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  • Should video streaming work with Captivate 6 content hosted on IIS 8?

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