I've got several clips for different clients that play without streaming... I rely on progressive download for them to play. Works well... most of the clips are short, but a few run several minutes and I haven't had any complaints.
I just have to make sure I don't put up any clips on my server that will overload the bandwidth. But to actually stream video, software has to be installed on a server specifically for that function, such as Windows Media Server, Real Media, QuickTime Streaming Server, etc. And the problem with streaming, at least for me, is that streaming instead of progressive downloading will quickly eat up available bandwidth for my server and cause problems serving websites. Too many requests for progressively downloading files can be a problem, also. But, if you're hosting with another company, they should have some media hosting packages available that would include streaming audio and video. Is your movie bringing up a download dialog instead of buffering, then started to play as it downloads? Rick -----Original Message----- From: Jenny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:12 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Quicktime Movie Hi Rick, Many thanks, my first venture into movies, I had no idea .. doh me Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 July 2007 03:56 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Quicktime Movie Hi, Jenny... I'm asking a fundamental question just to be sure... Should it be streaming? I mean, are you serving it from a server and server software that is set up for streaming? It sounds like you've got a file on a website and a regular web server, not a streaming media server, and the movie is actually downloading, as it should. However, it will probably start playing after enough has downloaded for continuous play while downloading (progressive download)... Rick -----Original Message----- From: Jenny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 10:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Quicktime Movie I've put a quicktime movie in a site, about 60mb worth. It appears to be trying to download the whole movie to the browser before playing instead of streaming it. Does anyone know what would cause this, please ? Jenny No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.6/900 - Release Date: 14/07/2007 15:36 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283726 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
