collective.flowplayer supports pseudo-streaming of flv files, but nobody has yet implemented pseudo-streaming of H.264 files - a much more complex problem.
Laurence ivan.price wrote: > > > Thanks Dimitris, > > However i think this doesn't fix my problem unfortunately, the video is > already in .flv or .mp4 / .m4v formats, the problem is that the plone > http server can only spit out the entire file to the client, it cannot > send only portions of the file based on a request range. so to see the > end of a 2 hour movie, you need to download the whole thing. The > forward-buffering works fine, on a local connection its not such a big > problem as by the time you want to see the future its almost all > arrived, but for internet connections its not so good. please correct > me if i'm mistaken there. > > all our plone content is actually stored on the filesystem (not in > zope-db) so in theory i could get 'creative' and have apache serving it > directly after plone checks for permissions, but at this stage its not a > serious problem for us and i'd prefer to keep things as standard as > possible.. we only have a couple of 'how-to' movies currently. > > thanks very much for the suggestion tho, it's mentally stored for the > future. > > -i > -- View this message in context: http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/collective-flowplayer-pseudostreaming-question-tp5556026p5563350.html Sent from the Product Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
