Video problem

[Raindog26]

I am trying to find a solution to a problem but I seem to fail.
I have a DVD production with allot of video clips.
The video clips are then put together in a play list depending on what choice the user make in the menu.
The problem I have is that the customer doesn’t want any kind of blinks or delays when the video player is changing files.
I have tried many different things like having two video projects that load and shows video after the play list, but nothings works smooth.
The best thing I have tried is to have one long video file and let the program jump to different places in the video using VIDEO.SEEK.
It works perfect when you run it on the hard drive, but not when you run it on the DVD. It gets delayed when the DVD has to read.

The quality on the videos must be on top.
I am not sure if flash is the solution.

Any one that can give me any advises?


//Eric

[JimS]

I have never seen a professionally produced (commercial) video on a DVD that didn’t blink or delay when I played it non-sequentially, say jump from song to song on a concert video. It may have something to do with seek time for the read head, but I suspect that throughput (bandwidth) on the DVD player, especially at 1x play speed, is the real culprit here. I don’t think that a DVD playing at 1x speed is pushing enough data to allow your project to work the way you want it to.

The only way I can figure out how to do it, would be to create a whole bunch of very short segues between your videos, just long enough to make up for the blink, then before you start playback, you cache those segues to the users TEMP folder, on their hard drive, and play them from there.

HTH

[Raindog26]

Thank you JimS for your reply.
I don't understand what you mean with the "short segues"?
Short sequences?

//Eric

[JimS]

Yes, like the last couple seconds of one video, and the start of the next. Perhaps all you need is the first second or two of each video to cache. I think that getting the timing all correct will be the biggest difficulty.

[yosik]

What about using 2 Video objects on top of each other and launch the second one a couple of seconds before the end of the first one and again from vid2 to vid1 before the end of vid2 and so on and so forth?
I didn't try it, but it may work.
Yossi

[Raindog26]

I have already tried using two video objects on top of each other but it didn't work as well as I thought.
I will look into your tip JimS and see what that will do.
Thanks allot for your suggestions.

//Eric