How can I make my FLV stream better?
Dec 27, 2010
By
Sam Veasey
I have a flash video that's about 15 minutes and almost 100 mb. It's on the 7th slide in my course. When I publish my course and view it locally, it's fine. I view my course, I get to the 7th slide, and everything runs like I want. But if I upload my course to our LMS, and view it as a learner would, when I get to the video slide all I see is a black screen. I guess the video's trying to load, but maybe it's just too big? I have a pretty fast internet connection, but I've never gotten it to play right. I'm worried because some of our audience has slower connections, so I don't think they'll ever be able to see the video. Is there a way to get this to work?
4 Replies
You could stream the FLV content but that would require Flash streaming server software, which can cost a lot. Here are some alternative ideas that can help:
I've heard of people using videos as web objects too. Bob, would that help?
Hi Cindy. Yeah, you could use a web object for the video but you'd still need special server software to stream it. I believe a plain web server alone won't cut it. The corporate IT dept at my company streams certain WMV's from special servers, using custom server software. We add videos like that as web objects in Articulate Presenter.
Thanks, everyone. I'll talk with my IT folks and see what they can do.
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