I have a need to improve the time taken to launch a video presentation
from a web browser in the short term.
The 100MB video file is local (ie on the hard drive of the machine running
the browser. In fact I've tried putting a smaller 20MB video, the mplayer
app, it's libraries, the plugin manager and it's libraries and the html
all in a ramdisk.
The sort of response I'm getting is after clicking the link to the video
it's taking about 1 to 2 seconds to kick in. I am not sure if it's the
browser itself or the plugin manager causing the delay, but if I replace
mplaer with a shell script that logs the command line parameters the delay
is between clicking the URL and the log entry appearing. Running mplayer
directly gives excellent response, ie before the enter key lifts up.
I've tried a few browsers and tried to try a few plugin managers with
varying success (ie got it to run or didn't). It looks like the common
theme is it seems to want to buffer the video when it probably shouldn't.
Of course the long term plan would probably be to have somebody code up
something that'll call mplayer or flashplayer or render a web page on cue.
I've heard gstreamer might be able to do something like this but so far I
thought it was used to process video, not display it. Also not sure if
annodex could be used here - the presentations could be re-encoded.
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