Whose bandwidth will be used...?

Discussion in 'Graphics & Multimedia' started by gaven, Dec 22, 2009.

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  1. #1
    I have seen many video sharing site now a days who use flv player to embed videos from other sites like this


    <a-- href=http://othersite.com/filename.flv" style="display:block;width:520px;height:330px" id="player"> </--a>


    <script>
    flowplayer("player", "../flowplayer-3.1.5.swf",{
    clip: {

    if one does this...while user views videos in the site suppose abc.com
    then whose bandwidth will be used ?
    abc.com or the othersite.com's?

    i think in embedding case,bandwidth of the original video site will be used...
    in this case?
     
    gaven, Dec 22, 2009 IP
  2. crazeblogger

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    The bandwith of the hosting that host those videos and image will be used.
     
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    I have question like this.
    I want to add a radio my site with embeded media player or with a flash radio player. If i did will it be eating my bandwitch?
     
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    With files like the one you've given in the example, you can see it's going to use their bandwidth because the file path points towards their server.

    Unless you're the one actually streaming the radio then it'll be someone elses. Usually embedded media acts as connection between the user and the host, without the person embedding using up any bandwidth.

    The ideas in terms of bandwidth are much like image hotlinking, if you want to look that up.
     
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  5. insert

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    thx for this answer, i was thinking about this about week ago ;/
     
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  6. gaven

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    ok thanks for answers,

    any way are you sure with the answers?

    i am using flow player and some flv player simulate things by downloading things first using embedding site's bandwidth and showing it to user as if it is hosted in same site.
    so i thought the same.

    here the case is not <embed> things rather
    flv file source of external site is used.

    any other further explanation would be great
    thanks
     
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    If the file is hosted on your server, its' your bandwidth being used, if it's on someone elses server then its' theirs. If you're just putting a little bit of code into your website then you wont be using your own bandwidth.

    If you really want, you could probably check in your web hosting statistics.
     
    Hecky, Dec 24, 2009 IP