Streaming Video And Cache
Hi Flasher
I need to stream video clips through Flash. Now I done this before with small clips and works good. However my client want to have larger video-clips of up to 5 minutes of duration.
Now my concern is, when streaming video in Flash it gets cached in the browser, right, unlike realplayer. So Im thinking what is the upper limit of file-sizes which is okey to stream through Flash without the browser crashing.
I realize this must depend on how big the client machine is, however I have no idea about how big file-sizes is safe to stream to broadband users.
Any thought on this most appreciated, thanx.
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Posted on: 2003-07-30
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