I am getting a web portal developed in which there are gonna be lots of videos ( ofcourse in flv format ) which can vary anywhere between 1 MB - 500 MB. Now, when we are testing our application with the videos we noticed that the videos are taking forever to load, for example 4 Min video took more than 15 mins to completely buffer on 2 Mbps line...ahhh thats awful. I read somewhere that the loading of pages and videos of a website has a lot to do with the kind of server its being hosted on and also the traffic of that website. Well, my site is being hosted on a dedicated server and currently I am the only one accessing the website so for obvious reasons the load time has to be fast.I know that there is something which went wrong with the site but I am unable to figure that out. I am also mentioning the features of the server I got just in case if you think the server isnt good might let me know : Intel Xeon 3060 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor Windows Server 2003 - Standard R2 - Unauthenticated - 32 bit 5 IPs 100 Mbps Uplink 2000 GB Bandwidth 2 GB RAM SATA 500 GB IDE/SATA HDD Please advise me on how can I reduce the load time of the videos.If you know any links or articles or sites which you think might be helpful to me then please do share it with me. Really hoping that I can get some sort of help here. Any kind of help is greatly appreciated.
what is resolution of video? what codecs do you use convert video to flv? If you think problem is in your server you can upload one of your movies to other servers (to any tube site for example). It can help you understand where is problem - in movies or in your server settings
Definitely the loading time will be reduces if you upload the videos to public servers rather than you own personal web space. Also the traffic on the server also significantly increases the loading time.
The first thing that you should let us know - are you using a progressive streaming OR server based streaming?
As of now the site is still in the development stage so there is no traffic at all to the site and thats what worries me,even though there is no traffic to the site its taking ages to load the videos. Currently its progressive streaming. I uploaded the similar video to Youtube and dailymotion and there the video loads almost instantly,so I think there is some problem with our settings itself.
AVC/H.264 video encoding offers you a higher quality (same bit rate) or smaller file size (same quality), H.264 video encoding for bandwidth saving, Flash 8 with alpha video encoding for video overlay, Flash 8 video encoding for high quality