One other interesting tidbit. I tried running the small movie files stand
alone in QuickTime, and QT crashed, so there is something wrong with the
movie files.
Any suggestions?
Joel
On 5/22/03 10:32 AM, "Colin Holgate" <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 11:13 AM -0300 5/22/03, Christopher Mackay wrote:
>> 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
>
> I was saying that I wasn't sure, but that the movie was behaving as
> if it played immediately. What you were saying about the distinction
> between fast start and autoplay is the key thing, if there is a
> distinction.
>
> If the two are supposed to be the same thing, then the problem would
> be something to do with the server delivering in spurts, and fooling
> fast start into thinking that the file is going to arrive on time.
>
> Hey, I just thought, are the movies VBR at all? That could give a
> situation where the number of seconds downloaded would lead fast
> start to believe that the remainder of the time will download soon
> enough. Of course, this would mean that fast start is a time based
> decision, and not data size based.
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