Re: with nothing better to do
- From: cwdjrxyz <spamtrap2@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:04:03 -0700 (PDT)
On Oct 20, 1:53 am, Neredbojias <neredboj...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 19 Oct 2008, cwdjrxyz <spamtr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No my script was on and I did read what you posted in your home tab.
I also have a download connection of over 5 mbps at the moment when
downloading from a server that is not overloaded. It is still taking
a long time for the first video in the Louisiana section to show up
and even longer for the second video. It could well be that you have
several of these videos in your computer temporary cache. I have
often observed that downloading can appear to be be much faster the
second time around once it is in the temporary cache of the viewing
computer. The flash YouTube videos use flv/swf with the flv flash
video file being much larger than the swf file which just contains
the player, logos etc. Connecting to the swf file starts the flv
downloading to the temporary cache of the browser. It is always
possible that there is something slowing down the connection from
your server to my browser, but if so it has been going on all
afternoon. In any event, selecting the video you want first, sending
that choice to the server via php form, and having the server send
the browser only the code for the video chosen to be viewed will give
the fastest possible response.
I quite agree with your conclusion but nevertheless the page loaded for
me surprisingly fast - appx. 6 seconds first time. Whatever vid I
clicked on started immediately and several ran simultaneously although
I didn't run more than 4 or test too extensively.
There is one other consideration. Not only are you linking to the page
owner's site but also to the YouTube site, because the YouTube video
is hot linked. Download from YouTube is not always the fastest, as you
can judge by the progress of the load bar which also includes a
pointer for the current play time of the video. Hot linking to YouTube
is very common, and they make it very easy to do so. In the past hot
linking in general was considered band width theft in many quarters,
but YouTube may not mind because it exposes more of their ads that
make their money. However, you can cut out any possible bottle necks
from hot linking to YouTube by downloading the flv instead. There are
programs to grab a flv. Also the most recent Real Player 11 version
will grab a flv on IE and Firefox 3. For a short time Real quit
working on Firefox just after they upgraded to 3. However Real 11 was
updated within the past several days, and the most recent version will
again grab a flv. Now several players including Real 11 will play an
isolated flv without association with a swf container file. However,
to work on most computers, it is quite possible to input the flv into
some flash video encoders and generate new custom flv/swf files. One
can build a player in many ways. For instance one can build a player
that does not autostart, that does or does not start downloading the
flv to the browser temporary cache when the page is downloaded to the
browser etc. All of this can come in handy when you have several
videos on a page that are a download hog. Since I seldom use YouTube
videos, I do not know if they would approve of this or not. Since ads
might be lost, they might not like it. Anyway, if you have a new flv/
swf stored on your server rather than from a hot link to YouTube, you
have one less potential source of slowness in download, and if YouTube
removes the video, no problem.
.
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