[Laszlo-dev] where to put a test file that needs to be remote?

[Raju Bitter]

Hi Sarah,

this might help you:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/Bandwidth_throttling.aspx?fid=402633&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sort=Position&view=Quick&select=2248516

- Raju

On May 18, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Sarah Allen wrote:

> The problem is that it takes a fragile jsp to gt the flv path from  
> YouTube.  I tried just putting it on my webserver, but it downloads  
> too fast :) It looks like there are some Apache modules for  
> bandwidth throttling.  In particular, mod_cband looks fairly up to  
> date and has positive reviews.  Does anyone have any experience with  
> that?
>
> Any chance of getting it installed on www.openlaszlo.org and  
> configuring a directory to be slow?  then we could put the test file  
> in there to be able to reproduce the buffering feedback without  
> depending on a website which keeps changing its behavior.
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> If not, I'll look at installing it on ultrasaurus, but it may be a  
> while before I can get to that.  (FYI: the context for this is that  
> I've got some scrubber/progress components in the works that are  
> more independently usable that the ones currently used by the  
> videoplayer component. I'd rather check them in when I can make it  
> so that the videoplayer classes use them, rather than having  
> duplicate private/public components that do almost the same thing.)
>
> Sarah
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> On May 12, 2009, at 10:09 AM, P T Withington wrote:
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>> Can't you post it on YouTube or some other place that has lots of  
>> bandwidth and (for now at least) is willing to host your content  
>> for free?
>>
>> I'd hate to have our svn server have to get beat up every time  
>> someone runs this test.
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>> On 2009-05-12, at 12:26EDT, Sarah Allen wrote:
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>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> I want to make a test case for the video player that shows the  
>>> visual feedback of the buffer (which I just realized is a feature  
>>> of the video player!), so I recorded a six minute video to add to / 
>>> test/video/videos ... but when I fetch it locally via http, it  
>>> downloads too fast to see the visual feedback.  Should I check it  
>>> in and then change the test to point to http:// 
>>> svn.openlaszlo.org/... or should I put it elsewhere? (it is 7.6 MB)
>>>
>>> Please advise.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>> http://www.ultrasaurus.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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