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Mickey_the_mouse
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February 20, 2007
Question

progressive download starts and stops

  • February 20, 2007
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Hi:
I'm new to video and could use some help. I have a video clip which plays fine localy but when played from the server (in progressive download mode) it starts and stops? I've tried different buffer times without success. I started with 400kbps (i have dsl and I tested it at 700k) I also tried 150kbps thinking slower data rate would not stop as much ---but it does the same thing? I can't figure out whos turning off my stream? The website host says its not them same with the isp. Anyone have any ideas how I can figure out where the interuption is? (maybe its local somehow).

Thanks very much

Mick
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    Anonymous
    February 24, 2007
    Are you serving your flv's from a dedicated server, or do you use shared hosting? If you use shared hosting, run a whois on your domain name to see how many other sites are on that server. I've seen cases where a host had thousands of sites packed on to a single server, with inadequate bandwidth to handle all of them.

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    Mickey_the_mouseAuthor
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    February 24, 2007
    Thanks for the replies!

    I think it is a shared connection, we don't have a fixed ip but we can change that. Its a low cost server called hostdepartment.com. I'll start digging into this, it sounds very likely.

    Thanks again for the tip.

    Mick
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    Anonymous
    February 23, 2007
    test on different machine.
    how does it play for others?
    try using a different player.
    post your code.
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