I uploaded a 28 minutes quicktime movie into my website Unit Reactivation Fort Knox but it only plays for about 26 seconds and then it stops.
When I tried it in the “preview mode” with my Freeway Pro 4 and also testing it with safari from the Freeway application it played completely but after being uploaded at the website it doesn’t.
I called freeway support yesterday but I got no solution to this issue.
If anybody can help me please let me know.
My email is: email@hidden
Thanks,
Jose Diaz
You double checked that the whole movie file actually is uploaded?
I just upgraded my Powerbook to 10.4.11 and have email but have lost Safari
browsing (just as I was supporting another in offtopic).
Ah Camino is on. It is a large file and loading slowly on my 8mb pipe so it
may be that its is going to take a long wait to be able to play it.
Maybe a faster server and or a smaller version (can be more compressed -
doesnt have to be smaller screen - though that helps too).
hope this helps
regards
Brian
aipe said recently:
I uploaded a 28 minutes quicktime movie into my website Unit Reactivation Fort Knox but it only plays for about 26
seconds and then it stops.
When I tried it in the “preview mode” with my Freeway Pro 4 and also testing
it with safari from the Freeway application it played completely but after
being uploaded at the website it doesn’t.
I called freeway support yesterday but I got no solution to this issue.
If anybody can help me please let me know.
My email is: email@hidden
Thanks,
Jose Diaz
The whole movie was uploaded. I have very fast DSL transmission and use the “Vicomsoft FTP Client” application for uploading. I have tried many, many FTP applications and Vicomsoft is the best. Anyway I can see that my uploaded movie has the same amount of megabytes as the movie in Freeway in my computer.
Thanks,
Jose
Gentlemen,
The problem has been solved ! I was using Vicomsoft FTP client to upload the movie but I was using it in the try out period. Apparently when you use it in this period it won’t load up more than 5 megabytes for a movie. It does show that it has uploaded everything but I think it won’t let everything to show.
After I paid and downloaded the paid application I uploaded again and now it works really nice! This movie is 265 megabytes of content.
Thanks to all,
Jose Diaz
Sometime around 20/2/08 (at 17:04 -0500) aipe said:
This movie is 265 megabytes of content.
Ouch.
I second Walter’s comment. More to the point, I hope your hosting
contract has a very generous bandwidth allowance! If just four people
watch it, that’ll be a gigabyte of data transferred. If just forty
people let it load all the way through (even if they don’t watch it
all) that’ll be ten gigabytes - and quite possibly a suspended site
and a request from your host company for more money to cover the
bandwidth.
For this sort of thing, you really should consider a streaming server
service. I suggest considering http://www.dreamhost.com for this, as
you get a very large bandwidth allowance and free QuickTime Streaming
Server (QTSS) features.
If you go with them, consider using STREAMINGHOST as the promo code
when you sign up; that gives you $50 off. (It also means I get $47,
but that shouldn’t influence your decision.)
(It also means I get $47,
but that shouldn’t influence your decision.)
I love it… LOL. But seriously, experience should get rewarded so I
have no problem following up this sort of recommendation if it gets
me the result I want and as a result rewards the recommendee.
Up to now there hasn’t been any issues or problems in that area. I have contacted several people about the movie in our page and they have been able to see it without much problems. The server company that I use is Actnowdomains and they haven’t say anything about it yet.
But I am not an expert in these issues so I’ll just wait and see…
Thanks,
Jose
Sometime around 20/2/08 (at 20:55 -0500) aipe said:
Up to now there hasn’t been any issues or problems in that area. I
have contacted several people about the movie in our page and they
have been able to see it without much problems. The server company
that I use is Actnowdomains and they haven’t say anything about it
yet.
Good stuff. Perhaps your target audience all has fast or very fast
broadband connections? If so, you could get away without using a
streaming server. Although that would definitely be a more
professional (although also slightly more techie) approach for a
movie of this size. 265MB is large.
Regarding your hosting company, I wouldn’t expect them to say
anything until you get near or pass their benchmark for high
bandwidth use (i.e. amount of data passed to visitors). It might be
worth looking at the details of the hosting plan that you have to see
if there’s anything mentioned about this. If not, and if you think
your movie might be viewed by more than a handful of people per
month, a simple call might be in order; you could ask the following
questions:
How much data traffic is considered high for the hosting plan I have?
How can I monitor the traffic?
If my bandwidth usage starts to look high, could I be contacted
before any steps are taken about that?
Just a few things off the top of my head. You could instead just take
the point of view that you’d rather not draw attention to it… but
of course, bandwidth usage is the sort of thing that’s monitored and
flagged automatically, so this is unlikely to have a negative effect.