ok guys,
I’ve been pondering the various ways in which video’s can be used in flash, and how to use these methods to produce on different formats
so I’ve come here to seek some advice
The company I work for, creates multimedia presentations on CD. These are designed primarily in flash, the presentation houses a video that plays from start to finish, coinciding with slides that appear ‘on cue’ with the various slides. the presentation controls also offer the user the ability to skip through the presentation.
Now we upload these presentations to our testing site so the speaker in question can see and check the presentation, giving feedback on changes to slide order or skip positions and so on… After the go-ahead the presentation is then burned to CD and mass produced from here
An example can be found here
http://www.praemedica.net/work/BIG198/draft2/interview.html
I have a few queries that maybe some of you guys have come across
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When uploading these presentations to the net, when the user starts playing the video, but wants to skip onto a later question, say ‘question 10’… there is a delay in which the video stops and then plays several seconds later (often MANY seconds later) I did some looking into this, am I right in thinking that using ‘FlashServer technology’ will solve this problem? I am presuming the timeline cannot skip directly to this part of the video and begin buffering from here on a standard FLV?
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When burned to a CD, there is still a ‘pause’ when skipping to different parts of the video (using FLV), although the delay is not as long as that of the online version, it still presents itself as a problem in my own eyes, when skipping from ‘question 1’ to ‘question 9’ were still waiting several seconds for the buffer to catch up… Is there a work around for this to make the skips more instantaneous? like like a dvd/cd skip? Perhaps and embedded video setup?
Thanks for taking the time to look at this, the post is a tad long winded
Any help or comments welcome
Simon
