Comments on: Preloading .flv and .mp3 files with Flash http://www.askapache.com/flash/preloading-caching-flv-mp3.html Web Development Sat, 17 May 2008 06:57:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ken Luallen http://www.askapache.com/flash/preloading-caching-flv-mp3.html#comment-36131 Ken Luallen Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:31:32 +0000 http://www.askapache.com/flash/preloading-caching-flv-mp3.html#comment-36131 So you've covered flvs and mp3s... can you show us <strong>how to preload an xml's worth of jpgs / pngs</strong>? That would be magnificent! So you’ve covered flvs and mp3s… can you show us how to preload an xml’s worth of jpgs / pngs? That would be magnificent!

]]> By: janos erdelyi http://www.askapache.com/flash/preloading-caching-flv-mp3.html#comment-35648 janos erdelyi Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:30:38 +0000 http://www.askapache.com/flash/preloading-caching-flv-mp3.html#comment-35648 it would be a huge waste of bandwidth to *definitely* transfer many many bytes that will only *maybe* be accessed by a human if you were to scale this up to all sites taking this type of action. however, for end-user experience it's great when clicking around. what about a middle ground? download a certain sized byte-range as a buffer and then stream the rest out if they decide to watch/listen - that way they get an instant start, but fewer resources are used for things the end-user never clicked on. it would be a huge waste of bandwidth to *definitely* transfer many many bytes that will only *maybe* be accessed by a human if you were to scale this up to all sites taking this type of action.

however, for end-user experience it’s great when clicking around.

what about a middle ground? download a certain sized byte-range as a buffer and then stream the rest out if they decide to watch/listen - that way they get an instant start, but fewer resources are used for things the end-user never clicked on.

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