# Reduce load & loop 'AS' based streaming vid

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reduce-load-loop-as-based-streaming-vid/196826>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 11, 2006, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reduce-load-loop-as-based-streaming-vid/196826 "2006-08-11T06:53:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![soulty](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/soulty/32/105_2.png) [@soulty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/soulty)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reduce-load-loop-as-based-streaming-vid/196826/1 "2006-08-11T06:53:21Z")

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Hey all,

I’m in the process of including a 1 minute .flv into a flash doc. I don’t want to stream the video since i want the video to load almost instantly and do not have any room for streaming progress bars also i can’t use flash8 and to get video to stream in flash 6 is a pain.

What i have planned to do now was slice up the 1 minute video into 6/ 10sec clips. Put each clip in a seperate external movie which will range from 50-100kb each in kb’s. I want to preload the first video and then play it, then in the background load external video2 while external 1 is playing. then play external 2 at the end of external video1 and do the same for the rest of the videos. Its a lot more work but i think this way i can reduce load time and have the video play almost straight away.

What do you guys think? is there a easy way to do it and achieve the same results or should i continue with my concept above, and if i do what i have planned is there any code that you can direct me too that will load a movie / hide it and play when called for?

if you have read this far, thanks and if you can help, it would be much appreciated.

thanks ya’ll!