Hi, I'm looking to add some admin-supplied video and can not get it to playback smoothly. I don't know much at all about video, so please excuse my awkward terminology and foolish assumptions.
The Drupal:
• 6.4
• JW FLV Media Player 4.1
• Via Filefield + jQuery
The Media:
• High-quality DVD Video
• Half a dozen vids + a dozen audio tracks
• Length is about 4 minutes each
The Encoding:
Settings were juggled quite a bit. My smaller conversion (w/Flash 8 Video Encoder):
• max data rate: 400 kbs
• size: 250 X 323
• audio: 48kbps mono
resulted in a .flv file of 16.6 MB
Playback is very jerky. Although this improves as the window is made smaller, player even chokes @ 125 X 145. (Ideal playback size is approximately 575px wide.)
My DSL connection is good enough I can watch other Drupal sites with playback @ 422 X 750. These experience less significant streaming issues.
How can I flush out what is caused by shared hosting vs. improper encoding vs. site configuration?
All replies appreciated.
Thanks!
-NP
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hosting: look at it locally
hosting: look at it locally (off your desktop) and see what happens.
encoding: the frame rate could have an effect on this. what's your settings? looks like the data rate is default, so that should be fine.
site configuration: looks good. i've used that configuration, and know several sites are using it.
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Have you tried a different
Have you tried a different player? You can try the Dash Media Player, which is a media player I built specifically to work with Drupal. Not sure if this will solve your jerky videos, but it is at least worth a shot.
Of course, if you still have issues, I will help out in trying to figure out why.
Thanks,
Travis Tidwell
I really like the idea of
I really like the idea of flash player, integrating with Views and CCK is a pretty awesome thing for a player.
Browser can impact
I know that FF on osx has worse flash playback than Safari does- I'm unclear on why this is, but it does seem to be consistent. You might want to check the files in VLC to see if the issue is the file. If it's not, trying different browsers and/or computers can at least help in identifying where the issue is coming from.
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Finding the problem
A few steps to trackig down the problem.
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Could it be FireFox?
Hello aaron, travist, flickerfly, arthurf, and mfer. Thanks much for your replies!
Video plays well through VLC. The culprit seems to be FireFox.. Video plays fine in IE6 6 & 7, but chokes in my browser of choice.
Ironically, FF will properly display content from other sites…Any ideas?
Thanks! -NP
if you're using swfobject,
if you're using swfobject, make sure it's 1.5 rather than 2, as there's a known bug with 2 and ff3.
Aaron Winborn
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Aaron Winborn
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Mac vs. PC
Aaron, thanks for your reply.
A comment at the top of swfobject.js tells me I'm running SWFObject v1.5.
Thanks for all of your suggestions. To address the existing issues:
• Playing locally: Files play fine through VLC
• Frame Rate: 15 fps
• Dash Media Player: Will investigate
• Remote Host: I uploaded the file to another host and changed the link. It did not improve and actually seemed a tad more jerky
• Different Computer: Here's the kooky thing. Video chokes on XP DSL FF (3.0.1) but plays fine through WiFi FF (also v.3.0.1) on my MacBook.
Thanks to all!
-NP
Same Place
Did you try and view both over the same Internet connection. If so, I'd suggest it's the computer.
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Sometimes...
Hey Matt, thanks for you reply.
When I'm at the PC (a desktop), I can load the page in FF and it displays poorly. When I switch browsers to IE, it plays fine. Same computer; same connection. The same computer also plays it correctly through VLC.
When I switch to the Mac (a laptop), FF plays the video just fine.
Thanks! Hans
Reinstall FF
If the problem seems to just be in FF on your PC I'd suggest uninstalling it, making sure all of it's files are removed, and reinstalling.
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