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Flash Video Issues

ronbo613

ronbo613

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I'm trying to make a webpage with embedded FLV videos, but I am having some weird problems and I can't figure out what's wrong.
The page is here: http://www.watermanatwork.com/Land/Cycling/MTBTheatre/MTBTheatre.html
Everything works great until the last four videos/objects, which never load. If you open another page in a new tab, none of the videos will load. It's like there's something limiting the linking of the videos; my webhost's server maybe? It also seems when the page is open it slows the internet connection; a modern day "endless loop"? I don't have a clue.
I'm working on a new page where only one video opens at a time, but if anybody knows what the heck is going on here, I'd sure like to hear about it.
Thanks in advance.
 
I don't see any videos.

I had an issue with multiple activex controls and a flash player many years ago. (7years to be exact) I don't know if it's changed as flash has evolved but each flash window throws a bunch of events into the queue, especially when playing videos. If these events don't get through nothing plays or plays very slowly.
 
The site is maxing out my bandwidth at 1.5MB/s.

I'm guessing that all the videos are preloading. Is there some kind of flag you can use to turn off preoload?
 
I think I might just design a page that only displays one video at a time. The fact the videos are preloading sounds like a valid explanation why this is happening. My internet is 1.5 Mbs and it freezes up as well.
 
You might try a video hosting service? Youtube? Vimeo? Hitting ~5.5mb/s at work, videos playing fine (playing all videos at once, after load). What is the total file size (all videos combined)?

Its just that you have too many connections open. You have multiple files downloading at once, which will slow all of them to a halt, especially if your ISP can't handle it. You'll want to find a player that doesn't preload your videos, but only starts streaming when you press play. This is also hell on your hosting bandwidth as every page hit will download all of it.
 
I put some of my videos on You Tube but I'd like to keep as much of it on my website as possible.
I think the preloading is the issue. I'm going to adjust the webpages so one video plays at a time. I wish I knew how to put a menu and the video player on the same page in separate DIV boxes so when an item on the menu is clicked it opens in the video player on the same page. I just don't know how to do that.
 
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