From: Steve McMillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to avoid re-buffering?
One option is to use the RealJukebox to download and play a video (or
even a full SMIL presentation) locally. Then users can seek very
quickly. The downside to this is that the content is stored on your
local disk similar to when your browser downloads and AVI file and
stores it in your local browser cache except that the Jukebox places the
content in and easily accessible library per your specifications.
You can get more details on authoring for the RealJukebox at
http://www.real.com/rjcentral/
Steve
RealForum wrote:
>
> From: Nicholas Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: How to avoid re-buffering?
>
> There is pretty much no way you can avoid buffering a streamed presentation
> when you seek forward. Why? Because the data has to come from a server on
> the internet and arrive at the person's computer before the content can be
> presented and because the data is compressed a certain amount of it needs
> to arrive before playback can resume.
>
> The only ways to solve this are:
> 1) increase the user's bandwidth
> 2) eliminate compression
> 3) use local file playback instead of network playback
>
> My suspicion is that if your users can seek through your Quicktime and AVI
> media without needing to rebuffer, then they are doing some form of local
> playback. (eg: downloading the file to a browser cache and playing it
> locally.)
>
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