Sorry for my late reply. Off with the flu or foot and mouth!
We want to avoid having to go through our library of movies and adding
anything to them if we can in an effort to save time.
All we need to know is how long each person watches a movie for and live
with the fact that a small percentage will walk away from their PC in the
middle of a show.
> From: Kevin Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "skunkworks talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:53:38 -0800
> To: "skunkworks talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [skunkworks] Re: Watching movies to the end
>
> At 9:00 am +0100 27/3/01, andy wrote:
>> Thanks MArk
>>
>> Sorry for missing out vital info! We are using Fast start but will be
>> implementing True stream as well so I guess we need both solutions.
>>
>> I have no access to the logs. This may seem bizarre but we use Akamai in the
>> US, who as you may well know provide web based proprietary software
>> reporting tools that don't appear to offer access to this particular info.
>>
>
> Let me back up a little. Why do you want to know this?
>
> If you want feedback, on the movies, you could solicit it directly by
> adding wired sprite buttons at the end to link to different
> responses, or related content they might be interested in. If you
> engineer this carefully using the new 'am I connected' abilities in
> QT5 you can in effect find out who gets to that point, while showing
> them something interesting and not gratuitously dialing their modem
> (which tends to put people off a great deal)
>
> With the download logs and even with web bugs you still won't catch
> cases where people leave it running and wander off, not watching it,
> or fast forward the boring bits.
>
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