how is this done without creating a bandwith overload and long load times
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Hi Scott,
(1) It is Flash video scaled to fill the browser window - the real
video size is much smaller, but Flash scales it quite smoothly.
(2) Relatively high compression rates for the video, which leads to
the slightly painterly effect. This works quite well for this subject
matter.
(3) It streams in the background. If you run it uncached while
watching the network throughput in Activity Monitor you’ll see quite
high throughputs until the media being watched is cached. I saw a
burst of around 200-250KB/sec for two or three seconds for the first
‘page’ (so at least 600KB there) and sustained traffic of over
500KB/sec for maybe 15 or 20 seconds when viewing the Behind The
Scenes section. Which would be an easy 7-8MB of data at least.
It ain’t that small, but it does seem very cleverly built (all in
Flash) with intelligent streaming and cacheing.
k
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