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Posted by R&B on 09/29/96 11:41
"zalek" <zalekbloom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1140289473.206998.88150@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I created some video clips in .AVI format (2 - 20MB) and put it on my
> web site, but when I click on it - the site ask me to download first
> the whole file before displaying it. Is there other way to do it, so
> the video will start plaing before downloading the whole file? Where
> can I find information about this process? Any good interenet sites or
> books with information about streaming video?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zalek
..avi is a poor choice for streaming video. Try something smaller, like a
compressed .wmv or .mov. Even Real Media (.rm), as much as I hate it, and
as much as it is being rendered obsolete (and thank God for that) is a
better choice than .avi. Nobody streams .avi files.
Most higher-end encoding software gives you the choice between presets that
will encode your file to either a "downloadable" media file (which has to be
fully downloaded before it'll start playing) or a "streaming" media file
(which will start playing once enough of it has downloaded to allow the
player to start playing it, then will continue downloading the rest while
the first part is playing).
Randy
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