Autostarting Videos Slow My Page

[eric_darling]

I have noticed that when a project is built and burned to CD, that it experiences slower performance for certain things if I have a video playing back in AMS 5. This didn't seem to be as noticeable in 4.0.

For instance, I have a small web object on the same page as a video object that is set to start playing automatically when the page shows. It works fine and snappy when previewing (and the data is cached on the hard drive), but when playing the same project back from CD, things go into slow motion with the web object. BTW, I'm loading a local HTML file with no images into the web object (only because I wanted to do treatment to the text that the Paragraph object doesn't really allow).

So, is there a way to preload the web object so that it shows when the page does? I mean the delay is pretty noticeable - the screen just sits there white for 3-5 seconds before the text pops in.

[Corey]

Actually that's a brilliant idea I'd never considered, using the web object as a paragraph object (which can accept CSS) in some scenarios. Cool.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[JimS]

I’m not sure if this would help or not, but maybe. If your video and web object are not located on the first page of the project, I’m wondering if you can load the webpage into a web object on an earlier project page. Of course, you might want to size the web object to 1 square pixel so it isn’t noticeable. The idea is to get the web page into the browser’s cache. That way, it should (might) load faster when you go to the page with the video, because the web object could read the webpage out of cache instead of off the CD.

I haven’t tested it, so I don’t know if it will work or not, but on paper at least, it sounds possible.