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ronbo613
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« on: April 03, 2010, 07:52:23 PM »

Howdy-I have some FLV clips that I want to put on my website. I haven't done much with Flash video, most of the videos on my site are short WMV and MPEG clips. The FLV files were encoded with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4; they should be good to go.
The Dreamweaver  "Insert Media" feature works fine to embed the FLV videos, but after putting four or five videos on the same web page, I run into a problem; the embedded videos don't show up, just a white box were the video should be. I'm thinking there is a limit to how much video can go on a single web page.
I guess the only way to go is link to the FLV files from a "contents" page and have the video on a separate web page that opens in a new window. Does that sound about right?
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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2010, 07:16:51 AM »

Nope. You can put any number of Flash video on a single page. A link would be helpful though to see your code and to make sure your paths are correct.
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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2010, 12:20:18 PM »

Hmm. I took the page offline because it wasn't working. Pretty sure the coding is correct, the page and all the videos display perfectly when I test it with Firefox and IE when the files are on my hard drive, but when the page and files are uploaded to the server, the FLV files stop loading after a certain point in the page.
I took the web page off the server and rebuilt the page, reloading the FLV videos one by one. When I reached the same video as before, it would not display. I though the swfobject_modified.js and expressInstall.swf may have been in the wrong directory so I put them in the same folder as the Clear_Skin_3.swf and FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf files, but no go.
Not being a Flash expert; I have a question. When the FLV videos appear on the webpage, are they loading into some kind of cache? If I have six FLV files on a webpage that are 10MB each, there would be no difference than if the FLV files were 50MB each?

Edit-I put the page back up so you can take a look  at it:  http://www.watermanatwork.com/Land/Cycling/MTBTheatre/MTBTheatre.html
What happens for me is that the last four FLV objects/Flash Player windows never load. If you open two pages in two separate tabs, none of the FLV's load on the second page, like there is some kind of "streaming limit". Everything else seems fine. I'm clueless here.
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« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2010, 03:20:59 PM »

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« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2010, 04:23:37 PM »

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when the files are on my hard drive
That's the first thing that leads me to question if there's something not quite right when the files are uploaded.

Whether the flv files load when the page loads depends on your player and coding. Some autoload and play the video when the page loads, other plays wait until the user hits play at which point they typically see a loading message until enough data is in their buffer to begin playback. Judging from your example page all your videos are loading when the page loads and when they are in view in the browser window. I used firebug to watch the network transfer and those white boxes go away once they are scrolled into view and then the buffering begins. Since most browser pipeline only two requests at a time, this is going to take several seconds before everything loads completely. You may want to try other combinations of players and something other than SWFObject.

By the way, when I last tested your page, all the videos except the last one were playable -- some just had to wait to be loaded.
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« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2010, 09:45:11 AM »

I think the videos preloading in the major issue. Perhaps a page with a single video scrolling menu to select the other videos might be the best call.
Thanks for your help.
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« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2010, 09:46:38 PM »

Using extended Flash movie controls you can easily forward and rewind Flash movies, arrange a playlist of Flash movies to view them randomly, repeat loaded file or the whole playlist continuously.There are two kinds of cue points in Flash video Event cue points and Navigation cue points.Event cue points adds more functionality to video and it can either be added during the FLV encoding process or can add event cue points to an FLV with ActionScript.
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« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2010, 04:02:55 AM »

I think the videos preloading in the major issue.
Yes I am agree with you. This is the main issue with you. I have its personally experience with me. I having the same problem with me. But some how it is solved. Well I also didn't figure it out that where I have problem but one of my friend solved it. But I think you are saying its right. video preloading is the is the main issue.
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« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2012, 01:53:33 AM »

You recorded your audio in an uncompressed format. WAV files are huge compared to MP3, which is a compressed format. That's why the finished file size is so "huge."Hope this helps...

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