D Videos - achilles heal and the fix.

Time to open the great video debate, and if/how we can find a solution for D-Pro!

My bug bear with D videos, is - they suck.

Ok, let me explain!

First, you have flash - which is just crap. Sorry, flash fans, but for anyone who wants apple mobile users to use their sites, flash sucks.

Ok, so we can now select the 'HTML5' video player that enables uploaded videos to work on i-things.

But, its still veeeeery sllooooww. 

If I have a 5 minute video, and I use the 'regular upload' option, so it is fully hosted on my D site (and therefore in my control!) - then said video has to fully load on page load before it can be played. 

Jump forwards  backwards to when youtube started doing that in video seeking thing, where we can just jump to wherever we want to view without fully rendering, and we have something like a video option that can be useable. 

Hang on... sorry! 

we never got that far here and still model our video system on 2004 before youtube was a word.

So.... whats the solution?

Has anyone tried to 'fix' an alternative to D-videos? (other than just using the youtube embed option!)

Answers on a postcard below please :-)

My attempts will follow. None worked properly by the way.

One approach I tried was to integrate D with a 3rd party video script such as 'clip-share'.

The site I used this for was one where only I was posting videos so it was easier to negotiate than a proper integration with users uploading...

This allowed me to use a separate 'media server' to handle all the video processing, as well as bandwidth streaming (so not to slow down dolphin side).

Worked well for my own videos, ftp bulk upload, in video seeking (no rendering), able to embed vid players with playlists in html blocks etc.... 

only big thing missing was it was not integrated for D members to use.

What we need is something that can 'replace' the existing video module, and allow users to still post vids site wise as normal - but allow in video seeking without rendering.

This one thing would be a massive upgrade to dolphins regular abilities...

The other big thing would be to allow a separate server to handle media.

any ideas?

Apple sucks too and they don't innovate, they steal and sue.  They leave off a feature and make it out to be a good thing and Apple users buys into the bullshit.

I don't have any problems with videos on my site; video uploads are going to take however long is required through one's ISP; I am poor so I can only afford a 1 meg upload speed from my ISP so I don't expect a 750 meg video file to upload in seconds from my computer.  As for rendering and playing that file once it was uploaded, it was fast and smooth. 

Perhaps you need to examine your site's house as the source of the problem.

its more an issue for long videos, or anything longer than 5mins...

I used to run a sports related site, with instruction videos sometimes 30mins long.

using standard dolphin video module, users would have to wait until the whole video had rendered in browser before they could skip forwards. Not good if they had aready watched the first half and wanted to skip to the 2nd.

Regardless of the apple / flash issue etc, dolphin video module really does need a major overhaul to make it properly useable for a vid centric site...

Please try this solution:

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Video-scrubbing-not-working-in-Google-Chrome.htm#255756

And please let me know about the results, in the above topic.