Disable auto downloading of embedded movies

SLix · January 15th, 2005, 05:09 AM

I have edited the templates for embedded media types to stop them from playing automatically, but the files still seem to be downloading in the background while the media player is stopped. How do I prevent that?

SLix · January 15th, 2005, 05:32 AM

In addition to the above..... Users are having problems with embedded movies. When they try to back out of a page with embedded movies on it, it can cause their browsers (IE) to freeze. I think this has something to do with the file downloading automatically, which is also going to increase bandwisth usage!

What I want is for the player to load in stopped mode - which I have done by changing the templates. But I don't want the movie to start downloading it's self until the user wants to download it, or hits the play button.

What can I do to fix this issue?

Chuck S · January 15th, 2005, 08:12 AM

Honestly no answer to your question that I know of.

1. Yes Video's add to bandwidth just like pictures.

2. Michael has stated that in the next version he will be putting into the admin options a switch and it is there. This is right from PP5 which I am running

Use embedded multimedia? YES OR NO

SLix · January 15th, 2005, 08:51 AM

Thanks for the reply.

I know movies use up a lot of bandwidth, but it seems it will use up even more with the embedding, as the files will now download with the page, where as before they would only download if someone wanted to download it.

It's a shame because I really like the embedding. It looks so much better! It only seems to be with avi files that user's browsers are crashing when they hit the back button. In the mean time I think I will make an embed template just for avi files, to show them in the old way.

I would still love to hear from anyone who has a solution though!

Chuck S · January 15th, 2005, 09:14 AM

Slix

This is why in PP5 Michael has added the switch so you can choose embedded versus download.

As far as the AVI maybe its something about the users computer settings? I am able to embed AVI files fine here from two separate browser types.

SLix · January 15th, 2005, 10:49 AM

Sure!

I have disabled embedding just for avi files now. As for why they were causing problems. Well they cause no problem at all if you let them download and watch them as usual, but if you deside to cancel by clicking the back button or closing the browser window, it causes the browser to freeze for quite a while. It does this in IE, and Mozilla. I am sure it's nothing to do with PP. It's probably because avi is not a streaming format.

Chuck S · January 15th, 2005, 10:51 AM

Could be my exact knowledge on multimedia do's and don't is limited

paulfletcher · March 22nd, 2006, 07:15 AM

Not sure if your still have this problem, but if you were to use QuickTime. mov there is a way to load an image... Such as a click here to play image... Then once the user clicks on that image the corresponding movie would then play. But I'm not sure if you would be interested in this because it uses .mov. But if you are I'll dig up the code again, because thats what will be using on our training website (all movies). http://www.xyztraining.com (Still under construction), but on March 27th will have it all up online... Right now I get the fun job of editing the biggest language file I've ever seen (changing all words from Photo to Video)

Thanks,
Paul

Chuck S · March 22nd, 2006, 08:29 AM

You think our language file is big