[Web4lib] Streaming video buffering?

[Thomas Bennett]

There is an option with Flash to serve clips with "progressive download".  
That is, you can process a large Flash file to serve incrementally small 
parts at a time.  Each small section is downloaded to the client one at a 
time.  I am not fully versed to how this is done but know our campus 
Multimedia Designer has set this up for some of these for our Distance 
Learning pages.  I feel certain there are programs that may convert AVI or 
WMV to Flash to minimize your work.

Thomas



On Tuesday 24 April 2007 12:25, Edward Corrado wrote:
> This may be a long shot, but...
>
> We are trying to stream the Annenberg CPB streaming video series "Teaching
> Foreign Languages K-12" via the learning.org video on demand service into
> our library. The videos are in Windows Media player format. It will play
> for a while and then stop. I think the problem is mostly due to our
> inconsistent (and relatively slow) network connections during peak usage
> time. I was thinking if an alternative to Windows Media player that
> allowed increased buffering options (Windows media player only seems to
> allow buffering up to 60 seconds of content), maybe we could get it to
> work better. Does anyone have any other options or tricks they can share
> (besides the obvious, which is to get increased bandwidth)?
>
> FWIW: The actual videos we are trying to view are at:
> http://tinyurl.com/2lr6yj
>
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