offer multiple-bitrate functionality

[jeroen]

 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/dynamic_stream_switching.html

[jeroen]

Bandwidth detection for both FMS3 and HTTP streaming are built into the player now. Second, how to ping this back to the server? Don't want to make this too rigid, since there are people with small bandwidths that might want the HiQ video...

[jeroen]

A manual switch, like Vimeo or YT, seems to be best. Why not reintroduce the fallback flashvar?

[jeroen]

FMS 3.5 isn't there yet, so moving this down again.

There'll be an additional 'HD switch' plugin. Works like Vimeo.com

[jeroen]

Thanks for your quick response. I have included a sample version of the player I have put together. By slimmed down I mean I didn't take it as far as he did in the article. I thought it was too much overhead to do dynamic switching midstream for the length of videos I'm playing. I just do one initial bandwidth check. My code isn't the prettiest or cleanest (hence the reason I'm looking into buying the commercial version of your player), but hopefully you can work through the code.

[jeroen]

Player from Luke Coyle with bandwidth detection

[jeroen]

This is fixed with the HD plugin now:

• the plugin has an hd.file flashvar that can be used to display the HD file.
• the HD file is automatically selected on start, a link to the normal file is set in the controlbar + rightclick.
• all video-based models now shoot bandwidth back to the player. If the bitrate of the HD file exceeds the bandwidth, the user will automatically switch to the normal file.
• If the user has selected the HD or normal file by hand (controlbar / rightclick), this setting will be respected by the bandwidth tool, which will not do a switch.
• The setting of the user is saved as a cookie.