Depends, if you are streaming FLVs using Flash Media Server or Red5, you can do the seek thingy...It's quite cool... But if it's progressive, it all depends on how much video is downloaded, how much it is buffered, how big the video is..
Generally seek algorithms are kindda complex.. Also depends on video encoding, bitrate etc... One of my colleagues has been doing some research on different ways to buffer progressive videos...he has come up some algos, I would see if I can share that with you, no promises though... Since you are going do deliver your project on optical-disc, it's not about downloading from internet.. I am sure you can do much better here... just keep trying different things (playing with numbers, encoding options etc)... -abdul On 1/23/07, Benjamin Schwehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tom Chiverton wrote: > On Monday 22 January 2007 17:43, Benjamin Schwehn wrote: >> The two FLV typically have sizes between 20 and 200MB each. One is >> encoded with an Flash 7 Codec, the other with the newer Flash 8 On2 VP6 >> Codec. (seeking is slow with both codecs) > > Would it be possible to just join the two video files together off line and > ship that on the DVD ? We considered that option, but would like to avoid it because the videos are not at the same resolution (neither same framerate, but that would be less of a problem): Video 1 (typically a lecturer giving a speech) is at 320x240, video 2 (typically PPT Slides, Animations, Films) is at 640x480. Since a joined video must still be rectangular, it would get quite large, at least 980x480, but in fact even a bit bigger (ca 1040x480, since we would need some additional space for our layout (the two videos shouldn't be right next to each other). Those videos would possibly be a bit of a hassle to generate and handle (and probably quite a bit larger because of the empty space and because we'd have to use the higher framerate for both videos). Escpecially as it is a bit of a hassle putting controls on top of a VideoDisplay, which we would have to do to for design reasons. I'm a bit surprised really, that Flash can't seek forward just a bit faster once the FLVs are a bit bigger and better quality than the stuff on YouTube etc. Thanks Ben -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
