Preventing progressive download FLV file

[jade]

Hello every one,

How do you embed an FLV file with progressive download, such that the user's browser does not begin downloading until the Play button is clicked?i know to embed an FLV file using Dreamweaver, but not able to curb embedded files from downloading automatically in the browser the instance you navigate to the specific page.I've searched the whole internet for hours and no one seems to be able to answer.since some of my pages will have several embedded videos on them,so this is a very important thing for me.in the mean time I noticed during testing that ALL the videos begin downloading in the background. I do not want this to happen as it makes the video-watching experience unsatisfactory for users with slower connections.

any suggestions would be brilliant.!!

[Trio]

Remember one thing if you are using HTTP, it's always a progressive download. There is no such thing as HTTP streaming to the flashplayer.use Rmp If you want to prevent the flv from showing up in the user's cache.i guess the reason that embedded youtube videos don't start downloading until you hit the play button rests in the difference a between video that is progressively downloaded and video that is streamed. they are actually 2 very different technologies.even although these two terms are used by most people interchangeably..

[Techno01]

I believe am comfortable with coding AS3, i still want to have simple, direct code. i would be able to trick the spectator on viewing the video.which creates some background which denotes the player,or export the first frame of your video as an image after this use that image as what the visitor view on the loading of your HTML page.you could activate some button in your SWF for loading of the player.do this with as many SWFs / video players as you like.I've given this the look of a player that is set to autoplay off which, if that was the case, would still be progressively loading the video, as you know, and want to avoid.

[Jackson2]

The experience in viewing these videos are the most important aspect. The compression is the similar irrespective of which delivery procedure is used, so "image quality" could be similar as far as smooth playback goes,.I simply want the swf to start playing and do a progressive download and continue to play. With the jpg it won't start playing until the jpg is finish downloading.