[flashpro] FLV file stops loading when you pause

[Stevio]

Actually I am not sure if what I said is right. The clip may still be 
loading even when I hit pause.

Are you able to share any code on how you did things?

Thanks,
Stephen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Laffey" <joe at laffeycomputer.com>
To: "Mailing list for professional Flash designers and developers" 
<flashpro at muinar.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [flashpro] FLV file stops loading when you pause


> 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...