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I'm Having Problems Streaming Video Effeciently

by Steve Wells
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I've been trying to set up a streaming video ALL DAY LONG that will stream fast enough to actually use and am unsuccessful so far.

I have a SWF flash video that's about 22mb in size. I have it stored on AmazonS3 for storage and Amazon Cload Front for delivery, and I have gotten it to stream but the load time really sucks, I mean who wants to wait 10 minutes for a video to fully load?

Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Any suggestions?

I do like AmazonS3 file storage which I may use to replace all my product files soon, it would probably be cheaper than Box.net, even though they only charge about 7-9 dollars a month for 5 GB of storage.

Anyway, any suggestions or help would be appreciated.....
#effeciently #problems #streaming #video
  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin959
    have you tried vzaar ?
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  • Profile picture of the author phpbbxpert
    AmazonS3 is fine, but switch to MP4 as it will be a lot smaller file size.
    Then use a player like FlowPlayer or any other player out there that has buffering built in.
    This will allow videos to buffer the future part of the video while playing.

    Also keep the page it is embedded into as light as possible.
    This will allow bandwidth to load the video instead of page data and files.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
      Originally Posted by phpbbxpert View Post

      AmazonS3 is fine, but switch to MP4 as it will be a lot smaller file size.
      Then use a player like FlowPlayer or any other player out there that has buffering built in.
      This will allow videos to buffer the future part of the video while playing.

      Also keep the page it is embedded into as light as possible.
      This will allow bandwidth to load the video instead of page data and files.
      Do you know of a free service that will convert SWF or FLV files to MP4?
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      • Profile picture of the author kkoechel
        Originally Posted by EWGQDD View Post

        Do you know of a free service that will convert SWF or FLV files to MP4?
        does it have to be a service? ffmpeg is free and opensource on linux, but probably has a windows version, or you could use cygwin.

        "ffmpeg -i FILE_NAME.flv -ar 22050 NEW_FILE_NAME.mp4".

        -ar is for sample rate, you could increase or lower depending on your need audio standards.

        in bash you could run some code like this, once downloaded, to change all the FLV files in one folder:

        for file in $(ls /folder/with/flv/files);
        do
        ffmpeg -i $file.flv -ar 22050 $file.mp4;
        done;
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        • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
          Originally Posted by kkoechel View Post

          does it have to be a service? ffmpeg is free and opensource on linux, but probably has a windows version, or you could use cygwin.

          "ffmpeg -i FILE_NAME.flv -ar 22050 NEW_FILE_NAME.mp4".

          -ar is for sample rate, you could increase or lower depending on your need audio standards.

          in bash you could run some code like this, once downloaded, to change all the FLV files in one folder:

          for file in $(ls /folder/with/flv/files);
          do
          ffmpeg -i .flv -ar 22050 .mp4;
          done;
          You pretty much just spoke, chinese to me, meaning I do not understand what I need to do, to get my FLV or SWF videos converted to MP4?

          How about a simple 1, 2, 3, tutorial or step by step explanation, that is easier to follow? Its obvious you know how to do this, but you have to be able to communicate it well enough for someone else to follow your knowledge or else it's pointless to try and help.....
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  • Profile picture of the author mrbrown123
    you want to show a video? use youtube lol.. if you want a video player without branding? then ok use humyo.com with membership . If you need to stream a flash file from a server free? then there are many free hosting sites that will allow hot links to your file. free!

    mail me and i will be glad to sort this simple task out mate.
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    • Profile picture of the author morrnel
      Hi, I remember a thread I read sometime back recommending some changes in the recording configuration that made significant improvements in streaming quality. For the life of me, I cannot find it again. I am having difficulty streaming from Amazon S3. Anyone recall?
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      • Profile picture of the author Tim Franklin
        Originally Posted by morrnel View Post

        Hi, I remember a thread I read sometime back recommending some changes in the recording configuration that made significant improvements in streaming quality. For the life of me, I cannot find it again. I am having difficulty streaming from Amazon S3. Anyone recall?
        MP3 files are never what they appear to be, but yes you can reduce your file size, by reducing the data rate, in the MP3, for just spoken words, (no music) then 32 is fine, but if you have music and you depend upon that music to make a dramatic statement, then you want 44.1

        MP3 files are downloaded, then uncompressed into the player, so in essence, what your doing is reducing the over size that has to be downloaded from the internet to the client side of the equation.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Franklin
    @ Steve Wells
    There are a number of things that you can do to reduce your over all file size, from workflow, to the number of types of assets, that your project uses, basically when you talking about an SWF or an FLV your talking about a certain type of compression, SWF is not known for having good compression.

    When changing from one format to another, you really need a good "source type" file, for example, MOV is a good file type for moving from one format to another, possibly it is one of the most versatile file types, however there are others as well.

    What is the original file type you used before producing the FLV or SWF file?
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