Gordon. At the end of the day, SWFObject outputs a standard <object> tag as if you had hand crafted it, so I don't see how swfobject could be any different/worse than any other embedding method.
In regards to playback stuttering, this comes down to a combination of processor speed / size of video (dimensions) / bitrate / and any extra computations required (like if you have scaled the video up or down from it's native size, used smoothing=true or deblocking for the video, or have other code running in the swf player (like an onEnterFrame for drawing progress bars etc)) Flowplayer, JW Media player, and all other major video sites playback for most people, so I'd point back to something specific with your implementation / machine. Aran On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:37 AM, gmccomb <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apparently I've had this bug for a while but only recently noticed it. > It's *accentuated* with SWFObject (I'm using 2.2), but it also happens > with static OBJECT encoding. Here it is: > > I have an FLV player that when run in Firefox the video occasionally > "lags" or freezes. The audio plays, and the scrubber continues to > move. The free lasts between 0.25 to 1.5 seconds. The freeze occurs > within the first 2-6 seconds of the video. > > Here's where it gets screwy: > > 1. It only tends to happen on first load of the browser after a > complete clearing of the cache and restarting the browser. > > 2. It rarely, if ever, happens if I wait a mininum of five seconds > before commencing play. > > 3. It rarely, if ever, happens if I run ANY Flash application first, > then run my SWF with any video. > > 4. The temporary freezing is more common when playing local content. > > 5. The freezing tends to be worse (longer, occurs more often, like 4 > out of 5 loads) with SWFObject than with OBJECT embedding. > > It may also occur in other browsers that use the Flash plugin, but > it's worse in Firefox. There seems to be no difference between FF > 3.0.x and 3.5.x. It does not appear to happen on IE. > > I've tested using the latest Flash (10,0,32,18), on an XP and Vista > machine. I've read some people have encoutered this problem and have > handled it with arcane measures, such as disabling Java, downgrading > to 9r47 or some crazy old thing (can't run H.264 with that). > > I've determined it's not specific to any video or player. I've tried > numerous videos (FLV1 and FLV4), including some I didn't encode > myself, and with Adobe Encoder using standard settings. In all cases > bitrate is between 400 to 700bps for video. It also happens in at > least Flowplayer, so it doesn't look like it's just my player. > > What's stumping me the most is why the freezing doesn't occur as noted > in #2 and #3 above. > > Any ideas?? > > Gordon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
