Video Seeking Problem
Jul 12, 2011
By
Tammy Smith
Hi. I finally have my video uploaded to the internet, though it's set to private right now. But when I try to seek through larger MP4s that I have on it, the video freezes for a couple of minutes before finally playing again. I've played other articulate videos online and haven't had this problem. I don't know why I'd be having this problem with my video. Test articulate videos of the same presentation (though with only 1 short MP4 on them) play fine. This one isn't, though. The entire presentation size is 415 MB. I was told that an MP4 was the best thing to use (rather than a swf or an flv), and MP4s do work better, but why am I having this seeking problem?
3 Replies
Hi Tammy
I recall there being an issue in some mp4s when seeking something to do with their encoding. As the MP4 will have been downloaded before playing the problem is either the player or the encoding, or you are running short of resources on your machine
Phil
Hi Tammy,
Phil is exactly right. Unless the MP4 has been downloaded completely, the seeking won't work as expected.
For example, if you open a slide that contains an MP4 and you immediately try to scroll to 75% of the video played, the MP4 file won't start playing until the previous 74% has been downloaded.
Ack. I was worried about that. :( I had briefly forgotten about the MP4 needing to be completely downloaded before you can scroll. So I guess I'm back to working with James on getting the preloader to work. lol.
Thank you both very much for the info. I really appreciate it. I wish I could make the video primarily in PowerPoint and just use MP4s for real-time clips, but Flash just seems easier for me to use (ironic, I know), and the videos have to be pretty small to fit in my background if I made it that way and didn't want them to overlap.
Pray that James and I can get the preloader to work and my video can proceed as is. Thanks you guys!
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