Requesting Bit rate

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crooque
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Requesting Bit rate

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Hello everybody!

One of my clients have a problem with visitors dropping off because of a heavy flashmovie on the entry page. The easiest solution to this problem would be to compress the movie to a weight that most connections could handle, unfortunately this is not an option. The client want the movie just the way it is.

Now, my question is this:

Does anybody know how I can request the connection speed of the visitor, in order to redirect the visitors with too low speed?

I know that it´s possible to check browser and platform. Is it possible to determine connection speed in a similar way?

Sincerely,
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Post by twigletmac »

Have a skip movie button so that people with low connections don't get forced to watch it load for years and/or have an entry page that gives them a choice as to whether they want the flash movie or not. AFAIK you can't just pick up connection speed in the same way that you get browser or platform information.

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Post by SuperHuman »

I know that it´s possible to check browser and platform. Is it possible to determine connection speed in a similar way?
Seeing that it is a flash movie, yes. You can't use general functions of any sort to do this outside of flash, but a lillte fancy with actionscript in flash 5 can detect the bitrate of the transfer...
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