Using Engage. we'd like to put in a
slide that has a list of about 30 FLV video files for users to select
the ones that they'd like to watch. Each file is 4-5 mins long, and 10-15MBMB each.
Does articulate load the contents of the ENTIRE slide at the
beginning (as such, it will download a scary 300MB before anything starts!), or
does it only start downloading the videos only once a user clicks on it to view? Does
it then download as the user is watching? (like youtube).
However I just found this blog which says the following:
"Because they’re FLVs rather than SWFs, they can progressively download and will always synch properly. These are just loading from a regular web server and work quite well, even in low-bandwidth areas. If we were to roll out a very large video, we could simply host it on a streaming server and point to it there."
I think the more efficient thing to do here, if you have Presenter, would be to create a presentation that contains links to the FLVs that have been imported on each slide. That would achieve what you are looking to do since Presenter doesn't download everything all at once.
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Engage loads everything at one time and is not playable until it has all downloaded, so yes a full 300mb download before it id playable, ouch!
Thanks Phil.
However I just found this blog which says the following:
"Because they’re FLVs rather than SWFs, they can progressively download and will always synch properly. These are just loading from a regular web server and work quite well, even in low-bandwidth areas. If we were to roll out a very large video, we could simply host it on a streaming server and point to it there."
...is Engage different?
I think the more efficient thing to do here, if you have Presenter, would be to create a presentation that contains links to the FLVs that have been imported on each slide. That would achieve what you are looking to do since Presenter doesn't download everything all at once.
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