Flash Video are better

[harry]

Other than streaming video technique, what methods are available for faster loading of video intensive sites in in a browser.How can we speed up loading time.

[kev woodman]

Compression. Use a good codec and compress as much as you can before it all gets too blurry. Flash is pretty good at compression and at least you know that most people have the codec. GFor a cheap solution try Windows Movie Maker - comes with XP and you can get quite a lot of control. If you're producing the movie think about frame rate and size - particulalry in animation. If you have a couple of copies of an animation you can produce one at, say, 25 FPS for production and a 12FPS version for the Web. Equally it's ok producing something at 1600x1200 if you're going to be displaying it from local machines but 320x240 is probably ok for the Web.

[harry]

Thanks woodman,
Pls tell me using 12FPS video on the Web would flikker video or would play smoothly.

[paul]

If you recorded the video using the PAL standard, a frame rate of 12 fps will work, I hope this will help; adobe.com/designcenter/dialogbox/encode_video_print.html

[kev woodman]

It should be fine on the Web - anything over 15FPS for the Web is probably too much.

Regarding PAL - Paul is right to say that an original recording that is PAL compliant will work more smoothly at 12-15FPS than an NTSC one. That doesn't mean that you should forget about it if your original is NTSC - you just need to be a bit more careful. Remember that when you convert your original aim for a resolution of 320x240 at most of you are delivering to the Web.

If you have access to Flash then I'd strongly recommend importing your video to that and outputting a Flash file - you will sacrifice quality but that's something you have to accept for distributing over the 'net.

[harry]

Originally Posted by kev woodman

It should be fine on the Web - anything over 15FPS for the Web is probably too much. ..........

If you have access to Flash then I'd strongly recommend importing your video to that and outputting a Flash file - you will sacrifice quality but that's something you have to accept for distributing over the 'net.

you mean flash video will load faster than other format. Is it so ?
also is it necessary to have flash player installed.

[kev woodman]

The speed the file loads would depend on the size rather than the format. You would need to have the Flash player installed but allmost every browser in the world has that and the support is much wider than for other video formats.