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Is this considered streaming?
| Posted by IceKickz, 08-24-2007, 04:43 AM |
| Hi, I was thinking of adding some flash tutorial videos on my site, but wasn't sure how this would affect our load.
See the HTML code generated by Adobe Captivate below.
Does this code indicate that the server streams the movie and will affect our load, or does it send the file (mostly BW affected) and the movie is played at the client's computer?
Thank you!
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| Posted by Steve_Arm, 08-24-2007, 04:45 AM |
| It is faked streaming aka HTTP streaming. It is like downloading. If the playing reaches the downloading bytes it will pause.
Either real of fake streaming your bandwidth is consumed since data are transfered.
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| Posted by Jatinder, 08-24-2007, 05:30 AM |
| Due to Eola patent ruling, IE7 and Opera requires users to click a Flash movie to "activate" it before they can interact it.
The above Javascript code takes care of this and and visitors don't have to click a Flash movie to activate it. The above code has nothing to do with streaming.
By the way, Flash by default uses progressive download. Even if you use streaming, data is still transferred to client's computer. Data transfer is same in both cases.
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| Posted by IceKickz, 08-24-2007, 06:20 AM |
| Aha, thanks guys!
I think I've misread something than, because I thought streaming was more resource incentive than just downloading (I realise of course that the same amount is transferred, so the BW cost would be the same). Was just thinking of the precious server load.
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| Posted by Jeremy, 08-24-2007, 11:26 AM |
| They will still put a 'load' as its taking a connection on your http server. If you can install something like lighttpd just for your streaming/content, content.blahblah.com your server will thank you.
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