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- imakedesign
how do sites like beer.com striper girl make the video run instantly on a broadband connecton? is it compressed loads? do they preload everything in the background??
- jkosoy0
heh. of course you were looking at the virtual bartender for its technical ingenuity, right? :)
the videos look pretty compressed and there is a delay. are you looking on a broadband connection? that might be all there is to it...
- imakedesign0
he he yeah i need another example as i need to show it as part of a pitch.
theres no delay on my broadband, each command comes a right away.
- jkosoy0
Not a huge delay. Just a minor one. But a delay nevertheless. I'll bet on 56k you have to wait a bit before each video loads...
...and there was a site released by someone (Barbarian Group maybe?) that was much safer for presenting to clients. A guy in a chicken outfit that you could send commands to the same way.
- imakedesign0
ah yeah i remember, cheers.
strange how there i no inital preloader.
- jkosoy0
small external files are really wonderful...
if there's a secret besides that i'd like to know. :)
- imakedesign0
so all it does it when you type in a keyword it calls up a compressed external file?
- lvl_130
on the shaun white site we did we used streaming video via vitalstream. we have it preload a set amount and then it starts playing auto. you see a preload on ours but you can set it to only preload like 1% for instant playback (keep in mind it's not for dialup people obviously...
and the company that streams it
...might be some help to you.
- Anarchitect0
good compression ratio + good broadband connection and you'll not have to wait almost nothing.
- imakedesign0
hi thanks, looks intresting. although when i view the video it stops and jutters.
nice site by the way.
- jkosoy0
>so all it does it when you type in
> a keyword it calls up a
> compressed external file?Correct. In fact, if you look around on google the XML file for the Virtual Bartender is availible, giving you all the keywords and their corresponding video clips.
...not like I researched for that. Really.
- imakedesign0
thanks for all your help dude.
i guess it can be done just a easy in flash too.
- jkosoy0
no problem at all. gave me a perfectly good excuse to open the bartender up and stare at...*ahem*...i mean try and figure out the brilliance behind their optimization techniques. :)
- imakedesign0
he he if only my subject was so ehem .. intresting.
- jkosoy0
haha.
if only they all were.
if only they all were...
sigh.
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- woodyBatts0
load .flv files dynamically, the virtual bartender uses xml to load the videos, in the Actionscript dictionary ( that comes with flash ) there is a section called "playing back .flv files dynamically" they even have the code for ya.
- imakedesign0
thanks man, i did not get the pitch in the end, but i will be using something like this again soon.