Well. Once the buffer is full it should continue playing again. What i am
saying is that it simply stops and you have to do a page reload and hope it
will not hang up again half way.


On 2/13/09 8:52 PM, "Jonathan Valliere" <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's the purpose of the buffer.  Your bandwidth may not be stable.  Also,
> I'm pretty sure YouTube is all progressive download.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Feb 13, 2009, at 3:43 AM, Niels Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I even noticed that with youtube.. It hangs if it hits the buffer and have to
>> wait for the buffer to build up again.
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/13/09 12:48 AM, "Glen Pike" <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>>     I am working on a Flash app that will stream video from ffmpeg +
>>> ffserver instead of connecting directly to the webcam - mainly because the
>>> app is on a touchscreen and it is near impossible to get Flash to select the
>>> correct one of 2 webcams automatically (Have you tried using the "system
>>> settings" dialog on a touchscreen @1280 x 1024?).  Also, Flashplayer does
>>> not share the device once it has connected...
>>> 
>>>     Anyway, I have the streaming server up and running and was able to run
>>> my Flash App on a remote client Windows PC and view the video stream.
>>> 
>>>     When I put the app on the Linux box and run it with the standalone
>>> player, it hangs when I make the call to NetStream.play with the URL of the
>>> video stream.
>>> 
>>>     The funny thing is that the application only hangs when ffserver +
>>> ffmpeg is running.  If there is no stream, it carries on...
>>> 
>>>     Is there a sandbox / security restriction for playing FLV's from a
>>> streaming server in Flash - i.e. is it looking for a crossdomain file on the
>>> server port that I am connecting to or something different.  On Windows I
>>> was testing in the IDE, so I am not sure whether running standalone makes a
>>> difference yet...
>>>     
>>>     We are running the app on a Gentoo box - not the most up-to-date version
>>> of Gentoo - but using FP9 for Linux (FP10 crashes at the moment)
>>> 
>>>     Thanks for any pointers
>>> 
>>>     Glen
>> 
>> Niels Wolf

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