ad3408
03-02-2004, 02:59 PM
Hello,
Here's my scenario. On my homepage, I have an introduction flash video that plays automaticallly. There is a preloader attached to it that determines the download time of several frames and if the download time is too slow the preloader loads another flash movie with a small file size. Users without a high speed connection are shown another movie that will load fine with their slower connection.
All of this works fine but the problem comes when the user with a slow internet connection goes back to the homepage and the larger intro video starts loading automatically since some of it has already been downloaded.
I'd like to have a cookie written as soon as the movie with the smaller file size is loaded. The next time the user loads the main page, the preloader in the intro video would check to see if that cookie exists and if it does, redirect the movie to play the smaller file size movie. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
A Davis
Here's my scenario. On my homepage, I have an introduction flash video that plays automaticallly. There is a preloader attached to it that determines the download time of several frames and if the download time is too slow the preloader loads another flash movie with a small file size. Users without a high speed connection are shown another movie that will load fine with their slower connection.
All of this works fine but the problem comes when the user with a slow internet connection goes back to the homepage and the larger intro video starts loading automatically since some of it has already been downloaded.
I'd like to have a cookie written as soon as the movie with the smaller file size is loaded. The next time the user loads the main page, the preloader in the intro video would check to see if that cookie exists and if it does, redirect the movie to play the smaller file size movie. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
A Davis