thanks for the answer! I think our connection to the datacenter is just slow in general, now that I talk to our CTO.
--- In [email protected], "Ryan Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are a lot of variables at play here. The data center may be > serving the content slow. Are you using progressive download or > streaming via RTMP? Flex video is definitely there, though depending on > audience and environment, it seems a lot of people tend to code their > own AS3 players to avoid the the bloated size of the compiled SWF player > when including the flex mx.* libraries (i.e use flash.media.Video object > natively versus mx.controls.VideoDisplay wrapper, etc.). > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ryan > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] flex video really slow! chunk size? anything I can > do about it?? > > > > I am using a Flex video player component I downloaded to play flvs > within an application. > > All seemed well when we were testing off of localhost urls. Now that > we are pulling videos from a remote datacenter, it is Sloooowww. Like, > a ten minute video downloads off localhost in seconds, while a 30 > second one from the datacenter takes a minute or more! > > Is there anything that can be done about this? My co-worker mentions > it might have to do with chunk size, is there any way to adjust it? or > is Flex video just not there yet? I noticed all the classes are > "mx_internal." Would I be better off just loading an external swf and > going with old reliable Jereon Wijering(sp??) player? has anyone > compared the speed of the two approaches? > > Desperately need help with this- thanks! > > > > > > > This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. >
