question re: limitations of flash video

[tamak]

I have a project that requires that I make a 60 to 90 minuted video
available online to a select group of folks who will be given a link to a site/page(s) where then can 'click to view' the clip(s) (video)...

My plan is to use flash 8 pro to encode / compress the video but if I do so Im planning on breaking up the video into 'chunks'... say 15 minute segments made available as individually playable flash video clips... (will be made available on a standard web server, not flash streaming sever)


Two questions -


1.) is 15 min. segments do-able (or will I run into issues with the video not synching with the audio?) roughly how much in MB will 320x240 video, that is about 15min. be? (Im worried about file size)


2.) Can I use actionscript to, upon reaching th end of one .FLV, go automatically to the next .flv / video file?


Thanks!

 

[digitalpencil]

1) Yes, but that's about the limit and personally i'd probably try sticking to 10 minute to be on the safe side. In my experience you're looking at about 25-30 mb for 10m at 320x340, so around 35-45 for 15.

2) You could probably use netstream.play.stop to detect the end of the flv and then advance to another but personally, i'd use XML to list the flv urls and text labels i.e. video 15-30mins, and then populate a list component with this. Then it will progress to the next FLV at the end of the prior and the user has more control over where they are in the video sequence..
You could even display thumbnails of the videos if you were to use the cellRenderer class.

Hope this helps