I have many .SWF files to work with. I know they generally slow down web pages but these videos are particularly valuable as how to demo's I'm looking for ways to show the videos but without the generally hefty page load time flash adds to page load time. Is it possible to have these converted over to some other type of video format which loads faster. I would like to avoid doing this by adding HTTP requests. Any Suggestions?
i think flv format is the most used format. also the less quality the smaller the file size, so you can balance that. regarding loading videos, there's no way around having to wait until they load. be it in flash or any other technology (like html5) id say that the best thing is to look into compression tools, having a look as if the better video format for flash is indeed flv, and (there no way around adding more http requests) loading each video separately, when the user selects a video, to avoid waiting for the main page to load (when it loads all the videos at once also) regarding the loading of videos, you could load them in the background. thats also a good way to avoid making the user wait until the video loads, on select. once the main page loads, start loading the videos in the background. while the user browses around the site, the videos would be loading in the background, so when the user goes to the videos section, there a chance that the videos are already loaded. im not sure about any other information about videos and your problem, but those are my two cents. take care