Comments for AskApache searching on preloading

Comment on Preload flash .flv files into browser cache by AskApache

AskApache — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:58:17 +0000

Sorry, it's way too old now. I avoid flash as much as possible!

Comment on Preload flash .flv files into browser cache by ivan

ivan — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:21:54 +0000

can you post the demo file?

Comment on Preloading .flv and .mp3 files with Flash by abc

abc — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:52:34 +0000

Hi, this all was for .flv files but what about .wmv files?????????

Comment on Preloading .flv and .mp3 files with Flash by Mark Corkins

Mark Corkins — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:48:07 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial on preloading. I needed this to preload the next series of training videos while the user is watching the first one. There are ten in all and some are quite large. Thanks!

Comment on Preloading .flv and .mp3 files with Flash by Will Dady

Will Dady — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:32:06 +0000

Personally I am very much against pre-caching content like this. Purely for the fact that it is a waste of a user's bandwidth and you can't assume a user will watch all 12 videos. I would attempt to intelligently predict what video a user is likely to watch next and pre-cache only that one. Obviously that would only work if your videos followed some kind of sequential order :

Comment on Preloading .flv and .mp3 files with Flash by Kev Man

Kev Man — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:00:13 +0000

Preloading FLV with AS3....DOES NOT WORK!!!

Its relatively easy to get this to work, heres all the actionscript you will need to preload any .flv file. Just create a new flash document, and on frame 1 enter in this actionscript. You can also search your flash help for “preloading” for more help.

No. Actually i copied and pasted this (as well as about 20 other so far today that boasted it was super simple) and i get error messages. As far as searching preloading in the Flash help, HA!!!! Good luck getting any information that you can use unless you are very familiar with AS, which im not and which is why im looking for copy and paste code, which Adobe has done a very good job of making this extremely difficult.

Comment on Preload flash .flv files into browser cache by brad tittle

brad tittle — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:35:48 +0000

Thank you very much. You inspired a solution to my problem. For others that might have a similar problem. I used an iFrame to launch a preloader which read an xml file for the files to load, used URLLoader to load the file, then loaded the next page putting it into the local cache. Using an SWF to pre download the files into the browsers cache was brilliant. I have the preloading posting a message to the master html file telling it how many pages have loaded. The master.swf queries the master.html periodically for the status of preloaded pages and sets a "Spooling" message if the page downloading doesn't catch up. Thank you again.

Comment on Preloading .flv and .mp3 files with Flash by Luke

Luke — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:24:24 +0000

So how do I then access the flv? The code looks like it's working right- Safari's activity monitor shows that my flv is loading- but then when I go to play the flv, the activity monitor shows that it's opening up another stream for the same file.

Comment on Preloading .flv and .mp3 files with Flash by Lucho

Lucho — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:08:41 +0000

How the heck do I turn off this awful music you have on this page?! Damn! are we back in the 90's?

BTW, thanks a lot for this post :P

Comment on Preloading .flv and .mp3 files with Flash by Leon Harris

Leon Harris — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:12:10 +0000

Thanks for this. It came is very useful as I am putting together an virtual Art gallery site, which is using a couple dozen FLV files to simulate moving around a Art Gallery. I needed a way to preload the videos before hand as they are all streamed for moving back and forward. I did a quick alteration to your code so that it would load multiple videos one after the other from an array.

video = new Array();
video[1]="intro1.flv";
video[2]="move1.flv";
video[3]="move2.flv";
video[4]="intro2.flv";
video[5]="move1a.flv";
video[6]="move2a.flv";
 
if(i ==undefined){_global.i = 1;}
 
file = 'clips_400kbps/'+video[i];
 
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
//attach videodisplay
_level0.attachVideo(ns);
ns.setBufferTime(0);
//myVideo.attachVideo(ns);
ns.play(file);
ns.pause();
ns.seek(0);
 
ns.onStatus = function(infoObject:Object) {
if(infoObject.code=="NetStream.Buffer.Flush"){
if(i < video.length-1){
i++;
play();
}else{
trace("videos have all been preloaded");
stop();}}}

I probably could refine this more but it did what I needed. Cheers.