Okay, for the first time EVER I'm getting similar grief from a client
on this point...
It's always been my understanding that AUTOPLAY did this properly --
i.e. it waited until enough of the video had downloaded that it would
never pause again (except where network congestion caused its estimate
to be inaccurate).
Are you saying that the AUTOPLAY instead simply tells the plug-in to
begin playing the video immediately, regardless of how much has been
downloaded (well, after at least one frame has downloaded)? That would
be bad, but that's never been my understanding.
Consulting my handy copy of "QuickTime for the Web" (Gulie, 1st ed, ca.
QT4, pg. 48-49, 82), the definition of AUTOPLAY makes no mention of any
relationship with fast-start, which I think is how I could characterize
my (erroneous?) assumption.
"QuickTime 6 for Macintosh & Windows" (Stern/Lettieri, pg 389) makes
reference to AUTOPLAY starting playback "when enough data has been
sent". This IS consistent with my long-time understanding of how
AUTOPLAY works.
Which is it, folks?
On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 09:47 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
At 8:19 AM -0400 5/22/03, Streaming Vistas wrote:
Also, customer said that when he played movies, they kept catching up
the
the download and stopping. I can't recreate the problem from my
systems.
I didn't get any crashing, but I saw the above problem. That's because
you have it set to autoplay, which seems to be that it plays as soon
as it's loaded. You want it to do the normal progressive download
play, where it plays at the point that it knows the file will be
downloaded by the time the playback reaches the end. Not sure what
that would be called. Perhaps you should just not have autoplay.
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