For a VOD, streaming video, you don't just slap up one video file and be done with it.
You must have multiple versions of the same file, but encoded for the playback device's characteristics (fps, screensize, bandwidth).
It is not uncommon to have at least 3 encoded versions of a particular movie/video. (low, med., high quality)
Flash can perform a bandwidth test prior to playing a video, to determine which file to load. However, if there is only one file, it cannot transcode on the fly to a lower bitrate/resolution.
The author of the article stated it worked fine on certain sites, but others were choppy. So, it is not on the client side, it is on the server side.
In the US, we can assume the majority of streaming video network connectivity would fall under broadband (dsl, cable, fios), cellular (gprs, 3g), and wifi (802.11b,g,n).
Depending on how the device is connected, the encoded bitrate can make a huge difference.
*Caveat: This is using h.264 (not VP6), with a Baseline profile of 3.
If you encode at the baseline level 3, you can reuse your h.264 file to play on ipods/iphones at 640x480, but with iPad, you can push it to 720p, baseline 3.1
For a VOD, streaming video, you don't just slap up one video file and be done with it.
You must have multiple versions of the same file, but encoded for the playback device's characteristics (fps, screensize, bandwidth).
It is not uncommon to have at least 3 encoded versions of a particular movie/video. (low, med., high quality)
Flash can perform a bandwidth test prior to playing a video, to determine which file to load. However, if there is only one file, it cannot transcode on the fly to a lower bitrate/resolution.
The author of the article stated it worked fine on certain sites, but others were choppy. So, it is not on the client side, it is on the server side.
In the US, we can assume the majority of streaming video network connectivity would fall under broadband (dsl, cable, fios), cellular (gprs, 3g), and wifi (802.11b,g,n).
Depending on how the device is connected, the encoded bitrate can make a huge difference.
*Caveat: This is using h.264 (not VP6), with a Baseline profile of 3.
If you encode at the baseline level 3, you can reuse your h.264 file to play on ipods/iphones at 640x480, but with iPad, you can push it to 720p, baseline 3.1