Is there any way to get a quicktime movie to load in the background… while another page previews? So when the user first goes to a site, they view a page, then it redirects to the page, which the movie plays… and it’s already been loaded in the background, so there is no delay or lag???
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Try making a very small iframe and load the movie into that using a
separate page.
If you design your separate page to have the same background color as
the page into which it will be inserted, this could be completely
invisible.
Make sure that auto-start is off. Put that iframe on the page where
you want the download to start, and then by the time they go to the
next page, perhaps that movie will be in the cache.
But if they go to the next page too soon, the cache won’t hit because
the download will be incomplete (I’m 99% sure about that, you would
need to test). This might mean that the movie would download twice,
and take longer over all.
It’s worth a try, anyway.
Walter
On May 24, 2008, at 9:41 AM, dhrose wrote:
Is there any way to get a quicktime movie to load in the
background… while another page previews? So when the user first
goes to a site, they view a page, then it redirects to the page,
which the movie plays… and it’s already been loaded in the
background, so there is no delay or lag???
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One more thought. If you’re careful about your layout, you can
probably USE the second page in the iframe on the first page,
avoiding the need for another page just for the preload.
Walter
On May 24, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Try making a very small iframe and load the movie into that using a
separate page.
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Hmmm not sure I’m following that… I put the movie on a separate page in an html box. Set to not autorun. Then put an Iframe on a different page with the “movie page” inside the iframe? If the movie is not set to autorun, how do I start playback in the iFrame page? If I don’t show controls that is… I basically want the movie to play on a black background… as the user goes to the page.
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I was imagining the following construction:
A page which serves as the “read this while your movie is loading in
the background” page. In this page goes the iframe, set to be very
small, like 1px x 1px, and the scrollbars hidden.
The page that contains the movie is loaded into the iframe, with the
movie set to show controls, not autostart, and out of the field of
view. For example, if your second page had the movie located at 20px
down and 200px right on the page, but you load that page into the
iframe at 0,0 coordinates, the movie would not be visible within the
iframe at all. It would, however, start to download to the cache of
the browser.
Then, there’s a third page (or maybe just the second page all over
again – I leave that to your design) where you would actually
display the movie. This page would be reached by clicking on a link
on the first page, or through a timed redirect from the first page.
So the iframe is meant to be hidden, it’s not where you would be
actively viewing the movie. The only reason for it to be there is to
provide a non-blocking means for the movie to download in the
background while something else is entertaining the visitor. Then
when she navigates to a page which features the movie, the file is
already in the cache and (should) display nearly immediately.
Walter
On May 24, 2008, at 12:08 PM, dhrose wrote:
Hmmm not sure I’m following that… I put the movie on a separate
page in an html box. Set to not autorun. Then put an Iframe on a
different page with the “movie page” inside the iframe? If the
movie is not set to autorun, how do I start playback in the iFrame
page? If I don’t show controls that is… I basically want the
movie to play on a black background… as the user goes to the page.
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