O.T. Hi All! Need help from S.A.

i c e wrote on 4/21/2009, 12:03 PM
Hey everybody what´s up?
Here in South America doing my thing. how has everybody been?
Need some help if i can......
I have given out about ten thousand links to my videos (included in something else I am giving out) and have had only three hundred hits. So obvioulsy something is wrong.
I recently came to a cafe here to check up and the videos are barely playing... like constantly skipping and super slow. I don´t know if the connections down here just can´t play them or what. The connections says 100mbps but some how I doubt it.
Any ideas of anything i could do to make them more watchable on a wider range of computers and conections??
www.vimeo.com/channels/soldado

i would really appreciate any help... Thanks mucho,

Joshua


oh, also if any one has any thoughts on the videos themselves, would be cool. I haven´t gotten much feed back.

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/21/2009, 12:21 PM
plays fine for me on my "crappy" 3mbps connection.

It's all but ignored in the game world, but speed = zilch, so many other factors that are more important then a large pipe.
The Kid wrote on 4/21/2009, 12:36 PM
Played fine for me as well here in Ukraine
LReavis wrote on 4/21/2009, 12:40 PM
also plays great here in So. California. In any case, I lived in Mexico off-and-on back in the 60s, but never got to S.A.; glad to see postings from Vegas users there . .
MarkHolmes wrote on 4/21/2009, 1:37 PM
It's fine on my new PC, but lags a little on my MAC G5 Dual 2.0 (five years old) Your problem is probably older computers having a hard time with the h.264 Flash video. It's pretty processor intensive.
i c e wrote on 4/21/2009, 2:38 PM
Hey thanks all,
Great to get such quick help half way around the world here in Colombia. This forum truly is a gem.

This is probably a stupid question (like most of mine) but:
¿Is there any other format that I could re-render to and upload that would be easier to watch in these third world places? Maybe something that would not need adobe flash player?

thañks agian and peace out,

Joshua

Oh... here´s another one. ¿Anyone have any thoughts on what, of the 6 videos, would be best featured? Which one hits you the best (if any). Please remember this is my first time around with all this stuff.
Chienworks wrote on 4/21/2009, 3:04 PM
100Mbps is very unlikely to be your connection speed to the outside world. If you're asking Windows about it's connection to the network then it's only reporting from the PC to the next hop, usually a router or switch right there in the room or building. You'd have to run some sort of download speed analysis to find out your connection speed to the rest of the world.

http://performance.toast.net/ is a good one.
LReavis wrote on 4/21/2009, 5:42 PM
regarding access on old computers, I'm able to play YouTube videos just fine from within my Virtual Linux (VMware browser appliance) running as a window within MS Windows; but not videos from many other sites. And I'm pretty sure that older/slower computers do better with YouTube than with Flash videos. Obviously YouTube standard def. videos will be lacking in image quality. That's why I've converted most of the videos on my own website, www.homexam.com, to Flash; but I also offer a download option for most so that they can download the .WMV files and play them from their hard disk (640x480 .WMV files require only a 700 mHz computer - something from the era of around the year 2000).
musicvid10 wrote on 4/21/2009, 5:48 PM
The way to get Vimeo to play on slow connections is to hit Play and then Pause.
This starts the video downloading and caching.

You can watch the progress indicator advance to a point where it looks safe and then hit Play again. The result is smooth playback on any connection.
TGS wrote on 4/21/2009, 8:37 PM
I don't know about vimeo, but I do know that I can find some of my YouTube videos on foreign sites (ie: S.A. or European) and on some sites, they don't play smoothly whether you watch live or let it download. That may be because of my low ram and cheesy video card, but I know I can watch regular and HQ at YouTube with out any problems, but not HD. I get the same jerky action from HD at YouTube that I get from these foreign sites playing regular quality. (on 2nd thought, the HD from YouTube plays worse, but the results are similar)
The videos at these sites still say YouTube and seem to have the same player, but they do not play smoothly. They even still have the HD option, which means I should be playing at least regular quality, except It looks like it plays at only about 10 to 15 fps.
Truveo and NME are the only two sites I can remember off-hand, but they appear to play normal YouTube Videos but play them as if labored and it looks Jerky, even though it's the regular setting and even if I let them download first.
I've never figured out why. But it does make me wonder what they are seeing in other countries or if it somehow works ok for them.
i c e wrote on 4/23/2009, 5:42 PM
Thanks guys,
regretably this doesn´t really give me much options, except upload everything to YouTube which, I really doñ´t wañt to do for a number of reasons.
In any case gracias for all the help...

chao,

ice