Ok - here are the news. It doesn't work (so far). There are several problems to deal with. The delays I was talking about in previous posts were results from packing the h.264 data into flv containers.
After a lot of work, I was able to segment a video into interleaved plain mp4 files which play nicely within OL. However, it is impossible to catch the exact moment to stop the playing video and to start the new video. I am currently doing this by checking totaltime versus playtime via a 100ms timer loop. Add all the micro-delays from hiding or raising the old and new <videoview> and you'll see the problem. Additionally, it seems the buffers and decoders are left 'dirty' after the first segment has been played as sometimes parts of the previous played segment 'flash' into view for a few milliseconds. This leaves me with three options: 1) Accept the flaws and continue to play around with what's available and with what I know; 2) Somehow get direct access to the buffers and 're-fill' them directly so the video is never paused or stopped; 3) Wait for Adobe to do the coding (Version 10.1 is supposed to have HTTP-Streaming 'on board') My question is: Am I able to get access to the video/decoding buffers (maybe through AS) and find out about their status, maybe even 're-fill' them? Thanks and have a great weekend. Michaela
