Will this video cause slow down?

Hi all,

I am building a tutorials block for my site using Flash. I was using a third party YouTube player and linking it to YouTube URL's which worked fine until I got more than 6 vidos, then It began to screw up badly.

There is an alternative third party video object that I can use within Flash that I have. It will work by loading videos from URL's, but is designed NOT to load YouTube Videos. So I can store the Videos on another server somewhere and link to the player in my flash application. Or I could store the videos within my dolphin and call them to my Flash using the URL function.

If I am storing the videos on my dolphin will this make the site have slowdown when too many users are watching the videos? I ask this because I know that the dolphin Video system is rubbish and that it suffers from slow down.

Technically I will not be using the dolphin system, I will be using a third party video player in flash.

Where would you store the videos - on your dolphin or on a different server?

Thoughts????

Thanks,

Nathan.

Nathan, like your female profile pic... lol

If your linking to a video from another site like you tube, or where ever. Your site resources are not used at all, the streaming of the videos are coming via another site, you tube, the bottleneck will be with the end users bandwidth.

as far as videos and Dolphin, it functions fine as long as your server is configured correctly.

these are "outside" links from u tube. http://www.duvallocals.info/m/videos/browse/album/My-favorite-You-Tube-Videos/owner/webmaster do you see a slow down?

and for converted video files.. with the right settings you can get good results.

http://www.duvallocals.info/m/videos/browse/album/My-favorite-Movies/owner/webmaster

not sure if I am following you on your needs.. just trying to understand.

Thanks newton,

This helps a bit. I took a look at the links. I will try to build the player with Flash and host the videos within my dolphin folders. if this does cause slowdown I will move the videos to an external server and see what happens. I think it will be a case of experimenting. My main consern is that If I store them in my dolphin folders then it will use system resourses? but i guess if the player is not the dolphin player then it should be ok.

Thanks,

Nathan

If your encoding the video via the Dolphin.. during the encode you will use a ton of resources.

Now as far as that goes, once there done(encoding) your only consuming bandwidth to the user, and if your on a limited storage cap after some time a lot of videos will use disk space of course.

Those links sent I referenced you to is a server box I have running at home super fine tuned to Dolphin, down to the mySQL. 

If your on a VPS you should look into Andrew Boons blogs about speeding up you server

http://www.boonex.com/n/500_Speed_Improvement_of_Dolphin_

http://www.boonex.com/n/Speed_Increase_Part_2_Web_Server_Configuration_

these changes to your server really do make a big difference.

what you have to consider when pondering streaming media is your current available resources. embed videos such as from youtube, do not use your system resources, as they are served from another machine.

if you load the videos on your machine, and serve those videos from your server, then it really doesn't matter which player you are planning on using, if your server does not have adequate resources to serve the stream, then by all means, the result is a depletion in performance.

I think I am getting somewhere.

I have made a beta of the flash tutorials block using the third party video player. For now I have stored the videos in a folder on my site. The videos load quickly and play well. They do not overlay eachother as they did with the youtube object I was using.

This appears to be the way to go. So, this system will not use the dolphin video at all because the object used in the flash application is completely isolated from dolphin. My only concern now is where to store the videos. Do I store them on a different server to my site and call them by URL? or do I keep them in the video folder imade on my site? I wish to put as less strain on my site as possible.

There are about 215 of them with a combined storage requirement of between 3-5gb total. Would it be best to cloud host these somewhere? Any ideas on a simple, cost effective solution would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Nathan

Nathan, is you have storage space on your server, store them there. Putting on another would cause a slight delay perhaps.. Storing files will have no affect on Dolphin performance

Glad you have it working for you.

You can store videos and serve it. This will not slow down much unless you use media server.

I ask this because I know that the dolphin Video system is rubbish and that it suffers from slow down.

Dolphin video system is not rubbish. You need to configure it correctly. I recommend you use and expert advice for this.

Have finished the beta, and made it part of a multi content block. This means the tutorials, history, news, tips and hall of fame can all be in one interactive block. It looks and works sooooooooooo good.