My video is only playing for some people.. advice? m

[rachel]

I converted a quicktime file to .flv using Flash 8. I used dreamweaver to get it online and it's working fine in Moz, IE, Safari, Opera, Netscape.. at my house and at my work. But not at my client's house.

Is it a version thing? Do they need 8 to see my movie? I am pretty sure that when I had to choose, I knocked it back so that it would compatible with 6 and up.. and the people who can't see it aren't getting the "you need to update" notice that I included, just nothing at all.

Clearly, I'm new to flash and I would really appreciate some help! Here's the page:

http://www.jacorehab.com/video.html

Mahalo!

[NTD]

Hi,

I have an older version of Flash so I have always handled video files a bit differently. However, one common oversight when publishing a Flash movie is to detect for the player version when producing the HTML page, but not setting the player version in the Flash preference pane. They are two different monsters. One detects the users flash player version and requires a minimum that you set, the other determines which Flash player the movie is to be played on.

[virtualscribe]

A more common mistake is Flash developers assume the general public will have computers as powerful as their own development machines. Flash vectors are extremely processor intensive. But the flv compressed video is even more processor intensive. Flash 8 is even more processor intensive than FLVs in Flash 6/7 because the compression is done by your powerful machine, but the client machine does the decompression. Flash 8 achieves very high rates of compression leading to smaller file sizes, but the user computer has to work extremely hard to decompress the movie.

In your case the video file is 800 x 600, and playing at full speed across most of the whooooooooooole browser screen. I suspect your computer is powerful enough that you don't see any problems. My 2.2 Ghz pentium processor showed about an 80% processor usage, and I have only 1 other Internet Explorer window open while watching your video. Be kind to your end users. If they have a 1Ghz machine or a slow connection or multiple windows open, your presentation will suffer. You can get away with using 320 x 240 pixel aspect ratio for your video. Tell your customer that his clients don't have powerful enough computers, because in most cases this will be true. In 5 years you should have no problems playing the size of video you are trying to play. Today, it's not likely.

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