[Nfb-web] Question - viewing videos on site

[Littlefield, Tyler]

Why not upload them on youtube, then embed the youtube player? They
would deal with all the transcoding for you.

On 1/8/2017 10:49 AM, Brian Mackey via NFB-Web wrote:
> Greetings to all,
> 
> I am currently working on the website of the Middle Atlantic Blind Golf
> Association. The site lists a variety of videos as downloadable links to be
> viewed through Windows Media Player. What I and the organization's
> president/webmaster noticed is that our computer 
> 
> is trying to download the whole video first before playing it.  The Promo
> video is very large and takes too long to download. One of the video links
> is very large. Is there a way to stream the video instead of downloading it?
> Streaming allows the computer to download only the first 10 seconds before
> starting the video and continues to download in the background to keep ahead
> of the playing video.  This will eliminate the need to wait for the whole
> video to download before watching it start playing.
> 
> If you need to the URL for the site to understand what we need, it is
> http://dev.mabga.org. The videos are listed on a page called "Videos". Any
> assistance will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Brian A. Mackey
> 
> Brian A. Mackey
> Owner, Mackey Enterprises, LLC
> Treasurer & Webmaster, National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey
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