Re: FN-FORUM: Reloading Flash

date posted 18th January 2006 16:08


In response to...
> > >
> > > just to clarify something with flash, when a flash file does that 1% -
>2%
> > > >>>>>>100% loading thing is it reloading the file everytime it goes
> > > thorugh this relaod process or is it just visual? If a 100k file is
> > > loaded 10 time has 10000k worth of bandwidth been used?


The transport layer is quite far removed and VERY indepentdent, from the
application layer, therefore download speeds have very little to do with the
format or type of the file. IIf you consider a traffic tunnel, the bandwidth
is the width of this tunnel, the speed limit upon the traffic is the rate at
which the data flows...in short it is impossible to use anymore bandwidth
tahn is available to the slowest machine. In short you have only used that
ammount of bandwidth in the same sense as total man hours to complete a
task.

hope this clarifys#

Peter

>From: Steve Rowe [EMAIL REMOVED]
>Reply-To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>To: "FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
>Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Reloading Flash
>Date: 18 Jan 2006 16:28:15 -0000
>
>
>On 18 Jan 2006 15:51:32 -0000, Tam Denholm [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> >
> > On 18 Jan 2006 15:46:03 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> > >
> > > just to clarify something with flash, when a flash file does that 1% -
>2%
> > > >>>>>>100% loading thing is it reloading the file everytime it goes
> > > thorugh this relaod process or is it just visual? If a 100k file is
> > > loaded 10 time has 10000k worth of bandwidth been used?
> >
> > I know nothing about flash but an educated guess would be that a 100kb
> > file would take 100kb of bandwidth per download(give or take a few
> > kb), its just downloading the flash file to be played on your
> > computer.
> >
> > If your theory were true i doubt anyone would ever use flash.
> >
> > Tam
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>A browser loads the Flash movie from its cache if it's available.
>
>A preload routine in the first few frames of the movie is executed by
>the Flash player as it loads, typically looping over three frames and
>counting the number of bytes loaded into the Flash player and
>displaying it as percent/bytes loaded. When bytes loaded equals the
>size of the file it exits the loop and plays the rest of the movie.
>
>So If it's retrieved from the cache the preload routine will still be
>seen to execute but for a shorter time.
>
>Steve
>
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