Progressive or stream video

[Vectar]

Hi All,

In my eLearning I have used video's with a teacher telling things while walking in the slide. This works perfect as I made it a progressive download with no player.

However when I place it online and start forwarding fast in my slides. It sometimes crashes. A preloader pops up and remains in screen forever. I want the eLearning to be dummy proof so I was wondering if streaming the video would be a better option and can I still have no playbar and have it run witht he same timing as some text come in the screen?

[RodWard]

Progressive download video is not the best option of your end users might be attempting to do what you just described.  But even if you ARE using streaming, you're still going to be limited by the end user's available bandwidth.  You need to test to find out what that is likely to be.  Unless your video also includes the onscreen elements you are trying to synch with, you're going to find it almost impossible to synch lots of videos with Captivate slide object animations as you have no guaranteed way of knowing at what point the video will start playing.

[Vectar]

Hi RodWard,

That was exactly my concerns.

I think I will do the following:

- Use streaming video (the user may have to wait every now and then, but it will not freeze the screen as it does with the progressive download when the user starts forwarding quickly.

- I will make sure that when a text needs to fly in, it is already included in the video. So the video screens will only contain video and I will include a forward button that needs to be clicked for entering the next slide, instead of putting the action to auomatically go to the next slide at the end of the slide. I can not be sure that the video actually ended.

What do you think?

[Vectar]

One thing: I can hide the playbar of the video even if I'm streaming it right?

[Lilybiri]

If you insert the video a synchronized video you don't have an individual playbar, but video is controlled by Captivate.

[Vectar]

Hi Lilybiri,

I placed the video's on my server and try to place them as streaming video in my eLearning, but it keeps telling me the URL is incorrect.

I have no idea what i'm doing wrong.

• Choose Multi-Slide Synchronized video

• File path I browse to the video on my computer

• Video type I select Streaming video

• URL I fill in the link to the same video on my server

It than tells me the url is not correct.

Same thing happens with event video

[RodWard]

Streaming video has to come from a streaming server.  Just linking to an MP4 sitting on your server doesn't turn it into streaming video.

[Vectar]

Thanks for the info!!

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Is the server set up to stream video? A streaming server is not the same as a normal server at all. Have a look at:

Media server software for streaming video | Adobe Media Server family

[Vectar]

Thanks both, you guys are right and I didn't think of this. Running to many projects at the same time and thinking to fast