Hello All,
This is a long one, but PLEASE, PLEASE, read and help.
I've recently built a fairly complex flash website in ActionScript 3.0
that uses a main .swf to load each individual page of the site. Some
of those pages have video progressively downloading through them. In
the future we plan on having many, many videos available for viewing
on our site.
The site works fine on many computers and we've done a soft launch and
gotten minimal complaints on the technical side. My co-worker,
however, tests the site on any computer he comes across and he is
encountering issues of locking up and pages not loading after the
videos have been viewed.
We broke the site down into it's bare elements with the minimal amount
of code to stream video through an FLVPlayback Component: the
main .swf, and the external .swf pages to be loaded(some with
progressive video) and still had problems with it locking up and pages
seizing to load after video had begun downloading.
We then tried it with a raw dynamically created Video Class object and
ran into the same issues.
I have set it up so that the video stops downloading to the users
computer upon exiting a video page, this however, comes with a browser
connection error going on in the background( view it in safari with
the activity window to see). We've tested this as well and still had
problem whether the connection error occurs or not.
We will be doing a massive email blast for the new site to over 15,000
people in our database. We wish to get business from the site so it is
important that my boss doesn't get any phone calls or emails about the
site crashing.
So, all that being said, the following is a list of unwanted behaviors
the site displays and the viewing parameters(operating system,
browser) where we encountered them. If you see anything that looks
like a common reaction flash would have when trying to progressively
download video, please identify it as such and let me know how I can
fix it. Also, any forums, chats, articles or livedocs you know of on
this specific topic would help immensely.
UNWANTED BEHAVIORS ON WINDOWS XP SP2 with INTERNET EXPLORER 7 FLASH
VERSION 9:
Site locks up after viewing video (sometimes two videos at most)
Site won't load other external .swf's after video has be played
Site stops while video is playing and then upon refresh won't load any
video at all
Site won't allow you to refresh or view the site again until you close
out of Internet Explorer but not on Firefox or Safari
Please view the site at: www.hennessyroach.com
Thank you so much for your help and all you have done for me over the
last year. I look forward to hearing your suggestions. If anyone
encounters errors, please send them back to me along with the browser
you are using.
Best,
Davido
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