So far – working with the Free Riva encoder and
References:
http://www.flvplayer.com/
http://www.webmonkey.com/templates/print_template.htmlt?meta=/webmonkey/05/38/index0a_meta.html
http://www.videospark.com/
http://www.rivavx.com/
http://www.youtube.com/

Some interesting stuff. I bought the Wimpy Flash Player to get a drag bar.
My FLV video hangs at 8:22 on all operating systems on all browsers when streaming. The video is 11:19 and 35.4MB – so it hangs around 26MB. Playback on local disk is fine.
This happens on the Wimpy player and the free player. Here is one more weird thing. If it is playing on the Wimpy player, and once things are downloaded past the 8:22 mark – if you seek past 8:22 randomly it hangs and you can no longer seek.
I am sure that if you were using a real streaming server this would not happen. So the plan is to encode to a length below 26MB, – at 21 MB and see if it works better.
— It does work better – I can randomly navigate through the whole video. So word to your mother – don’t make FLV’s too large.
Here is some more information that does not sound like it is right – but I note it here just cause it took me some googling to find it.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14437
A Flash movie can have as many as 16,000 frames. Exceeding that limit will cause the movie playback to stop. While this limit is rarely reached by most developers, it is possible to have movies that are this long. If your movie must have more than this number of frames, it would be best to create multiple movies with fewer than 16,000 frames each, and link them together with a method such as LoadMovie.
Even though I don’t think this is the problem – it bears more testing because – at 16000 frames and 30 frames per second – it does turn out to be 8.88 minutes. WHen I have a better upload speed I might just try this out.
Man I hate doing QA when it takes 8 minutes to reproduce a problem! GRRRR.