Re: [WSG] Video Files

2004-12-14 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi. For 30mb movies that is not a good idea. Browser will try to save whole file before sending it to application. This eliminates streaming. Not quite correct. When the QuickTime Movie is authored correctly, QuickTime plays the Video while it still downloads. Greetings, Michael Vogt

Re: [WSG] Video Files

2004-12-14 Thread Kornel Lesinski
For 30mb movies that is not a good idea. Browser will try to save whole file before sending it to application. This eliminates streaming. Not quite correct. When the QuickTime Movie is authored correctly, QuickTime plays the Video while it still downloads. You'd have to make few kb dummy quicktime

Re: [WSG] Video Files

2004-12-14 Thread Charlie Barr
Larry Rappaport has created a disturbance in the Force. I felt its presence on 12/14/2004 1:57 PM. Its substance was as follows: Regardless of what you do, I'd mention in or near the link the size of the .mov it's linked to. 30 meg is pretty slow even with broadband. You might include a small

Re: [WSG] Video Files

2004-12-14 Thread Larry Rappaport
I believe either Dreamweaver or Fireworks will do that for you, or you could browse the web - there are several sites which will let you borrow the figures. -- Larry Mail may be sent to rapp at lmr dot com. Please use plain text only as html is filtered out as spam. On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:02:33

RE: [WSG] Video Files

2004-12-14 Thread Patrick Lauke
From: Charlie Barr A client on an old website we designed is asking us about putting up Quick Time videos on their website. [...] what would be the best way to have them available. Why not just link to the .mov file? It will then open in whatever way the users want, or at least give them

Re: [WSG] Video Files

2004-12-14 Thread Larry Rappaport
Regardless of what you do, I'd mention in or near the link the size of the .mov it's linked to. 30 meg is pretty slow even with broadband. You might include a small chart listing download times assuming different connections. -- Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:03:00 -0500, you

Re: [WSG] Video Files

2004-12-14 Thread Mordechai Peller
Larry Rappaport wrote: 30 meg is pretty slow even with broadband. Even with a T1 at maximum utilization it would take around 3 minutes; slightly more than the recommended 8 seconds for a page load. ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Video Files

2004-12-14 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 15 Dec 2004, at 9:47 AM, Mordechai Peller wrote: 30 meg is pretty slow even with broadband. Even with a T1 at maximum utilization it would take around 3 minutes; slightly more than the recommended 8 seconds for a page load. To apply the '8 second rule' to *every* page on the web is patently

Re: [WSG] Video Files

2004-12-14 Thread Charlie Barr
Larry Rappaport has created a disturbance in the Force. I felt its presence on 12/14/2004 4:20 PM. Its substance was as follows: I believe either Dreamweaver or Fireworks will do that for you, or you could browse the web - there are several sites which will let you borrow the figures. Well I don't