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Posted by dorayme on 09/09/07 01:26
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<1189295965.540091.164060@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>,
cwdjrxyz <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info> wrote:
> > > I have a hinted QT movie
> > > athttp://www.cwdjr.info/video_extreme/cancanMOV.php
> > > . When the player comes up and shows the control bar, you will notice
> > > that the progress bar starts filling showing the movie is loading. You
> > > can then click the start button, and the QT movie will start playing.
> > > If you connection is fast enough, the movie will play through without
> > > stopping. If your broadband is not fast enough, the movie will pause
> > > when the play indicator overtakes the loading progress display. If the
> > > movie is not hinted, it will not be able to play until the download is
> > > complete.
> >
> > On this machine I have this download speed according to FF
> > Bandwidth meter this morning: 5671 kbps. I get pausing with
> > streaming videos most times (including with your video) until
> > replayed from cache when all is available. I have QT Pro. I
> > thought I had a "fast" connection, ADSL 2. But all is relative!
> >
> > (btw, I still like this clip of yours, saw it last time you
> > mentioned it. Good one.)
>
> My server is in the central US. It usually can easily put out well
> over a 4 Mbps stream, but on rare occasions it might be overloaded for
> some reason. I have found that delivery speed outside of North America
> often is much slower. For instance I can get a download rate of over
> 2Mbps from a London test site. However I get a download rate that is
> much lower from much of Europe and other countries including
> Australia. My computer is capable of over 5 Mbps, as measured, from a
> test site. I am using ATT/ Yahoo DSL service which can give about 3 to
> 6 Mbps depending on how close you live to the local ATT phone company.
> Of course slowdowns can occur anywhere between my server and your
> browser, and there are lots of devices, cables, satellites, etc in the
> link between my server and you. One reason that streaming .mov files
> are not all that common, is that you require a really fast connection
> all of the way to get the videos to stream well without partial or
> complete download. The quality is very good, but .wmv or .rm files
> often can work at much lower kbps speeds, with considerable loss of
> quality and reduced image size.
>
> What kind of QT player you have does not matter in playing .mov files,
> be they regular ones or hinted ones for streaming. The QT PRO player
> is one way to hint .mov files you wish to stream. There likely are
> other programs that will create .mov files that will do this, but many
> of these will be expensive pay programs that may include much that
> many people do not need.
Thank you for the explanation.
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dorayme
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