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Requesting Bit rate

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 8:41 am
by crooque
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,
Crooque

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 8:50 am
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.

Mac

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:45 pm
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...