|  | Posted by Phillip Mann on 06/03/07 11:57 
I converted a VOB file to a SWF file and placed it on the web page as:
 <embed src="VIDEO_TS/picking.swf" width="100%" height="100%"
 autostart="true"></embed>
 
 The page opens with the black screen but I have to wait 5 or 6 minutes
 for the picture and audio to start.
 
 Any suggestions?
 
 On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:07:24 -0700, cwdjrxyz <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info>
 wrote:
 
 >On Jun 2, 4:40 pm, Phillip Mann <p...@bluegrassbanjo.org> wrote:
 >> How do I put a swf or avi picture on a page that opens FAST?  I have a
 >> swf file embedded on a page but it takes FOREVER  for the 110 meg file
 >> to open.
 >
 >
 >If you use the relatively new FLV/SWF method, you can open the video
 >at any time you wish. The flash consists of 2 files that are linked
 >internally and are created at the same time from a master video that
 >might be a high resolution mpg or some other high quality file. You
 >can create the flash at a bit rate suited for your application. In
 >this case, the . swf file contains only a flv player, controls, logos,
 >etc and thus is quite small and opens nearly at once. The flv(flash
 >video) that is created at the same time as a file linked to the swf is
 >the actual video. You have a swf file and the linked flv file on the
 >server in the same directory. You only have to call the swf as usual
 >on the web page. When someone views the page the small swf file that
 >contains the player comes up very soon, and the flv is automatically
 >being downloaded to the browser temporary cache. If you create
 >controls with play buttons to start, you can start the video nearly at
 >once. However if your download speed can not keep up with the bitrate
 >required for the video, the video will pause to allow buffering time
 >to download more video so playback can begin again. You can also
 >include a status bar in the swf player to see how the download is
 >going in relation to the playback. See http://www.cwdjr.net/flash/VTS_01_1_NEW.swf
 >for a short demo. This method is now being widely used by many large
 >sites such as MySpace, Google, YouTube, news sites etc.
 >
 >I don't think you can stream anything of DVD quality, because this
 >requires a reliable download rate of over 10 Mbps for a  typical
 >commerical movie quality DVD. Very few will have a broadband
 >connection fast enough to handle that, and even if you did network
 >congestion and server overload could greatly reduce the actual
 >download rate. . Thus, for any type of movie streaming, much
 >compression of the video is required if you want streaming to start in
 >a reasonable time and continue without stopping to buffer.
 >
 
 
 Phil
 
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