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Differences in Browsers opening videos

Discussion in 'Technology Forum' started by PantherPaul, Oct 10, 2005.

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  1. Oct 10, 2005 at 9:24 AM #1
    PantherPaul

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    Why does Firefox open a video clip on a website ALOT faster than IE, and how can I get IE to open a flash viseo faster. Here is the site with video . Try with IE and prepare to yellow with age :cussing: . With Firefox it doesn't take that long :Woot_Emot
     
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  2. Oct 10, 2005 at 10:59 AM #2
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    I'll let Booty take this one since I"m a Firefox user :)
     
  3. Oct 10, 2005 at 11:53 AM #3
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    My guess is that IE is downloading the file, and then playing it locally. If it were a small file, you wouldn't notice the difference.
     
  4. Oct 10, 2005 at 11:58 AM #4
    The Brain

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    so far that's what it looks like to me. I think on dial up the Firefox version may take as long, but it plays streaming with a decent speed.
     
  5. Oct 10, 2005 at 1:51 PM #5
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    It's idiotic Flash. Who knows. The plug-in for Firefox and the control for IE are probably different. And it could just be that your page sucks and is causing IE to do the download. I'm not a web expert, so I'll leave that to others to determine if anyone cares :).
     
  6. Oct 10, 2005 at 3:36 PM #6
    PantherPaul

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    Can you think of any otherway to make it load faster than flash? I got it in a movie format and converted it over (friend did it) to flash hoping to have it load easier
     
  7. Oct 10, 2005 at 7:57 PM #7
    Bootay

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    If people have a recent version of WMP, you can get it to play as it streams to them, resulting in near immediate playback. Just encode it into a Windows Media Video format...
     
  8. Oct 11, 2005 at 8:39 AM #8
    El Bastardo

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    Switch to Opera...it's faster than the other two hands down.
     
  9. Oct 11, 2005 at 9:06 AM #9
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    I was going to respond to El Bastardo, but then I saw his avatar and forgot everything I was thinking about.

    Carry on.
     
  10. Oct 11, 2005 at 9:22 AM #10
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    Ugh... this post is dumb.

    I like Opera, but it has nothing to do with this thread,
     
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