Need some testing please

OSX 10.4.4
DSL 1 Mb
Player 8.0 r22

Netscape 7.2: the videos are not showed. you see the progress bar in the
status bar & the message "Tranferring data from ..." but nothing more

Firefox 1.5.0.1: the left video plays better than the right one wich
sometimes stop for data to arrive

Safari 2.0.3: better performance although the video on the right
sometimes stop


DMennenoh wrote:
> I created a fairly simple video player for a client of ours. It's created in
> 8 pro, and published to player 7. I'm using FlashObject to embed it, and
> have a simple message displayed as a gif file if player 7 is not available.
> My client's tester is saying they get the message saying 'this requires
> player 7, click here to install' but they are not seeing .jpg image links,
> within a table under the Flash. Why the heck she cant't see .jpg's I don't
> know - they're not progressive or anything. After reinstalling Flash she
> sees the same message about needing it too.
> She says that going to the Saturday Night Live video of Taylor Hicks - here:
> http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/taylor_hicks.shtml
> works perfectly well... and it's Flash- (nice quality too, btw... what are
> they using - if you look at the code it says it requires player 3... ? )
> So - my client had a couple other people test it - they are on DSL and said
> it stutters and breaks up... I know DSL is crap but the videos are encoded
> at 900 Kbps - so 90 KB/s... even DSL should be able to maintain that. And
> it's a high encoding rate, but they wanted to target player 7 and spark is
> not good at much less to my eyes. In my testing, even after uninstalling
> Flash player, I was able to reinstall and watch the videos without issue.
>
> Can some people _please_ give this a test and let me know their experience:
> http://test.beautyriot.com/BRTV/brtv.php
>
>

Thanks Dean. Maybe it's because you're so far away. <g>
I re-encoded those with vp6 at 500Kbps = 62.5KBps = should be fine on DSL...
The videos look real good though actually, I could probably get away with
more compression. VP6 is a nice CODEC for sure.




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Dave -
Adobe Community Expert
www.blurredistinction.com
www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/

Thanks, do you have the plugin installed for IE? It works for me in IE 6.
I'm also surprised that you (seemingly) just looked at it and it worked. The
.php page is no more... it's a .htm now as I switched to using a JavaScript
function to change videos so the page didn't reload.

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Dave -
Adobe Community Expert
www.blurredistinction.com
www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/

Tried your link out and plays fine in Firefox, Netscape and Opera, however IE6 demands that I download Flashplayer 8.

> Can some people _please_ give this a test and let me know their experience:
> http://test.beautyriot.com/BRTV/brtv.php

Hi Dave,

I just tested the above on my ADSL (512kB). It does stutter as it starts to play
and then stops when it needds to download some more. If I press pause and wait a
while, it plays file while the slider is behind the downloaded bar. But, it
plays faster than it downloads. So, when it catches up the download point, you
get the sttutter. Feel free to email me if you need more info or desting.

regards
Dean

works for me.

works fine here also - on DSL

works fine here.