[flashpro] FLV file stops loading when you pause

[Joe Laffey]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Stevio wrote:

> Something I have noticed with playing videos through Flash 8 using a FLV 
> file, is that if you start playing the video, but then pause it using the 
> default controls they give you, then the video stops preloading.
>
> This is annoying because if you start playing a video file, and the video has 
> not loaded enough yet and your connection is slow, you would perhaps pause it 
> to allow it to load further, but instead it just stops preloading.
>
> Any suggestions?


Does this happen when you load the FLV manually using NetStream ?

I am still using Flash Pro MX2004. But I have had very good luck making a 
playback mechanism using NetStream. I mainly did this because other 
players, like the MediaPlayer in Flash, or Quicktime itself, tend to start 
playback WAY too soon when "streaming" (progressive download where it 
starts to play before being downloaded all the way). This leads to hiccups 
in the playback because the buffer gets emptied. So I built my own player 
with a bigger buffer. I measure the bandwidth using a SetTimeout, average 
it over the last few seconds, and then calculate the remaining time based 
on the bytesLoaded and bytesTotal.

Hope this is of some help...

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