Thanks for your replies, Dave and Zeh. Just to follow up on Zeh's point:
IIRC, Flash on a mobile device unloads the video from memory once it's past > a certain point due to memory constraints, keeping only the last few seconds > of it. It was mentioned on some of Adobe's docs about mobile optimization. > I think this is the Adobe docs page you mentioned (in case anyone else is looking for it): http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/mobile/WS4f388c71a1d4fd05-3e2e5588124a6ccb96c-8000.html. This was kindly linked to me by Joe Ward over at the Adobe Forums. Just an update (for anyone who might be struggling with this too): I'm currently having a go at loading the video from the phone's sdcard. So far it's been a huge improvement in usability and playback. The path to the sdcard is file:///sdcard/ - if you transfer the video to the sdcard through "USB mass storage", don't forget to unmount the drive before attempting to load the video!! Or divers alarums and general hair tugging might ensue. Con. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Zeh Fernando <z...@zehfernando.com> wrote: > IIRC, Flash on a mobile device unloads the video from memory once it's past > a certain point due to memory constraints, keeping only the last few > seconds > of it. It was mentioned on some of Adobe's docs about mobile optimization. > I > think it's more about memory usage rather than actual time though (no > hard-set limit so impossible to predict). > > Using Flash Media Server with a real stream would work, but then you need > additional buffering and streaming. If it's important to have the video > already buffered, it'd make more sense to have the video file be smaller - > and thus not take that much memory... I guess a 11MB file would be a lot > for > a mobile device to keep in memory. > > Zeh > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:07 PM, confustic...@gmail.com < > confustic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This doesn't work on the mobile, even though the video is fully loaded. > I'm > > not sure why but my guess is that the mobile's cache is a lot smaller. In > > this particular example I'm testing, it seems like once netstream.time > goes > > past approx 30 seconds (of a 1:45 video, 11MB filesize), you can't seek > > back > > to those first 30 seconds. > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
