video on web

[Klaus Major]

Hi Charles,

> Hi,
> Is there any way to monitor the time it takes a progressive video to 
> actually start playing in a player object? I'd like to be able to 
> provide a "video loading" or other appropriate messages, and make the 
> message go away when the video starts to play. Ideally having some way 
> to gauge how long the wait will be would be great.

please check out Trevors wonderful QucikTime External, which lets you 
monitor exactly this!

http://www.mangomultimedia.com/developer/revolution/enhancedqt.html

Will need QuickTime te be installed of course...

> Where does the video get stored on the hard drive?

No idea :-)

> thanks,
> Charles Silverman

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de