FLVPlayback buffering problem on 56k dialup...

[oldnewbie]

I finally managed to get the downloading bytes count from a FLVPlayback component, but eventhough it seems to work well on my fast cable connection, I cannot get it to work on my old 56k dialup.
It starts off fine, but as soon as it hits the count of 497,617 bytes (on +/- 2MBs files), the player seems to "time out" and consider that it has downloaded the whole file... The progress bar suddenly jumps to the end, and the file will play, but it will only play what I figure must be those 497,617 bytes, and what the player seems to consider as being the whole file, although it's only 20% of it.

If someone can check the following on some slower connection, I'd like to know if this is also happening for them...

http://oldnewbie.110mb.com/flash/mediapreload.html

Does anybody have a clue to explain why this would be happening... And maybe have a suggestion to solve the issue?

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[kennethkawamoto]

I don't have dial-up (OK actually I do but tricky to dig up and connect the modem cable) so I can't test. One thing to try is to set FLVPlayback.autoPlay to true and tweak FLVPlayback.bufferTime but not sure if this helps.

I would create a much smaller (something like 120 x 90 px, 12 fps, 60 kbps) FLV and test on the dial-up modem to see if it works. If it does then it means your FLV is just too big for the dial-up connection.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[oldnewbie]

Kenneth,
Thanks for your response...

I don't think size as anything to do with it... In fact think I found the culprit... It might be the server, which seems to "time out" around the 500kbs mark, when preloading files.
I've tested another over 500KBs simple .swf, and yes that preload also fails around the 500KBs mark, but it doesn't, in the same conditions on another free host... So that points to this first server...

Thanks again.

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