You can make HTTP requests for both items. You could download the
movie, and ensure that all sessions finish in about an hour. You'll
run into some problems, though, as all of the response data is
generally buffered by the HTTP samplers before it is discarded. An
hour-long video multiplied by many connections is going to run you out
of memory quite quickly.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Abel MacAdam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to test a website offering a streaming media movie (like a
> flash film)?
>
> For instance, I have a website, http://www.mywebsite.org, which offers the
> movie mymovie.swf.
>
> Should I test the load by just opening http://www.mywebsite.org/mymovie.swf?
>
> And what if the movie is half an hour long? "Watch" the movie for that half
> hour? Or is the fact you could open the movie the success I'm looking for?
>
> Abel
> --
> View this message in context: 
> http://www.nabble.com/How-to-test-Streaming-media-website--tp22491783p22491783.html
> Sent from the JMeter - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
>
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]

Reply via email to