djsnay — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:18:04 +0000

can this preloading be done with MP3s as well... ?

Yvonne — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:15:20 +0000

Thanks Andy. If anyone can resurrect a thread from the dead, it would be me

I've read that Flash would be my best option but am such a noob in this area . . . just one more thing to fit into my day. Sigh.

Thanks again!

Yvonne

andy206uk — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:37:55 +0000

Whoaaa... old thread

In all honesty, in this day and age, Flash video is probably the best way to go. It can be preloaded easily and works on all systems that have flash (which is probably the most popular plugin out there). From what I know flash has something like a 98% install base, where as quicktime, realmedia, windows media are significantly lower.

Yvonne — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:45:42 +0000

Thanks for this thread. I'm having kind of the same problem wherein my wmv files can't be preloaded and take forever and a day to load when someone clicks to play. Maybe I should convert the files to mpegs? That wasn't a random thought but actually a question ;>)

Thanks for any opinions!

Yvonne

Jimmy Changa — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:55:57 +0000

Thanks for sharing your successful results with us.

critical — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 16:40:13 +0000

Mission accomplished!

mpeg video files can be preloaded. .wmv files cannot (they start to stream).

You just embed a Windows Media Player onto a web page (or in a hidden frame), specify the URL of the .mpg file, but set AutoStart or AutoPlay = false. The .mpg will start downloading immediately, but the video won't play until someone presses the play button.

Or use JavaScript to set the filename for a Windows Media Player in the main frame equal to the filename of the Windows Media Player in your hidden frame (which already caused the .mpg file to download to your computer's cache).

Works like a gem, but my god this was a pain in the arse to figure out...

Jimmy Changa — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:31:38 +0000

The security comment is not necessarily with your situation...just the preloading of files in general. Pardon my useless comments..I make many.

Hope your project works out for ya.

critical — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:20:50 +0000

What do you mean about security? I'm not sure where you're going with that...

Also, I found documentation on Microsoft's web site on how to use JavaScript to set the filename to be displayed in an embedded media player. Now I'm just trying to get one embedded media player in the main frame to display (without delay) the same .wmv file that was already downloaded to an embedded media file in a hidden frame. It *should* work - hopefully I'll get it to work over this weekend...

Jimmy Changa — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:54:36 +0000

There is that little issue of "security".

*shrugs*

ROB — Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:35:27 +0000

hmm, good question. i suppose you could always try it....