Thank you for the help,
This is going to show my inexperience with flash video. If I
decide to move my video to a streaming server, do I need to change
any actionscript code in my application (other than the video file
path)? From what I read about the net stream class, it does not
appear that any code in my application would need to be changed to
make this transition. Is this correct?
Thank you for your help,
Kevin
On Sep 14, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Scott Talsma wrote:
Justin is dead on. B/c you are using progressive download, you
cannot seek to a point beyond what is already downloaded.
You may want to consider using Red5 or Flash Media Server (or
whatever they are calling it now). Both will allow you to stream
video. Red5 is open source. FMS is commercial, but the developer
edition will allow a limited number of connections (I think 5 or 10
concurrent), so it might be enough, depending on your application
needs. Both however assume that you have a server available onto
which you can install the streaming app.
Justin Haygood wrote:
1. Make sure that much of the video is downloaded first. This is a
drawback of progressive downloaded video.
2. Seek() only works to keyframes. Make sure you have keyframes
encoded in the video at those points.
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From: "Kevin Shorner-Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 8:28 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [AFFUG Discuss] NetStream and Video Problem
I have recently encountered a problem with the netStream.seek()
method. I have built a video application for my doctoral
dissertation that extensively uses the seek function with a
"scrubber bar" and buttons that allow the user to move through a
video in 10 second and 1 minute increments.
When I pilot tested the application this summer, I used a 20
minute flv video that was loaded into the application and
everything worked just great. Now I am having problems with the
seek() method. When I use the scrubber bar, or any button to
move forward through the video, the video 'snaps back' to a
location that is nowhere near where I need it to go. For
example, if I move the playhead position to 23 minutes and 14
seconds, the video might snap back to 9 minutes and 34 seconds
and never allow me to jump to that spot in the video. I have to
let the video play to that spot.
I think that the root of all of my problems is that I have
built the application around progressive downloading of the
video rather than streaming. Now that I am using larger videos
of 45 and 55 minutes, this may be the root of all of my
problems. Is this my problem or is there another aspect that I
need to troubleshoot?
Thanks for any help that you can provide,
Kevin Shorner-Johnson
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