I'm looking for a solution to load a 50MB Flash movie and a 150MB Windows Media Video, placed on a web page, more quickly.
Movies are not placed on the same page.

Buffering goes to slow and it takes toooo long before the movie plays.

Thanks,
Jeffry

To be honest, 50MB flash file is too large. What the heck is in the file? You should compress it more or find a good compression tool to downsize your file. As for a 150MB windows media file, I suggest compressing that too, that is just insane for web use and especially for streaming. I hope you have lots of bandwidth to burn. SwishVideo is a good program to downsize video files into small swf files.

Other than that, you can throw a pre loader in the flash file but that doesn't necessarily make it load faster, it will just slightly preload enough to start and keep preloading.....Good luck.

The Flash movie is already compressed. The original file is a 2.3GB .avi file.

And the Windows Media file is compressed too.

Both movies must remain high quality.

I was wondering if it is possible to put those files on different servers and take advantage of the combined power of those servers to improve loading speed.

Sorry but that sounds like a really bad if not stupid idea. Your best bet then if they are compressed and must remain high quality would then to make seperate pieces of the file so they would load quickly. Preload movie 1....then when movie 1 is playing preload movie 2 and so on....

To stream something as large as these files, you might as well make cd copies. Otherwise zip them up and then let them be downloaded.

Originally posted by Jeffry
I was wondering if it is possible to put those files on different servers and take advantage of the combined power of those servers to improve loading speed.

You could use a content-distribution network like Akamai. However, I think you're missing a point -- you could have the file streamed from twenty servers, but that won't make anyone's modem faster. You only do this when there's too much traffic for one server to handle and it starts buckling under the load.

I've seen long flash and wmv presentations stop on a "chapter x" frame while preloading the next portion, or play a loop that's already been downloaded that says "please wait" or something. I've also seen the still frame used for logo/ad purposes.