Video runs smooth in Flash, but choppy in Internet Explorer

[Andra]

Hi there,

I'm currently building a portfolio-like site for my boss. On this site we want to show video of projects he's done so far. He'd like to display them as big as possible (don't they all), but he wants smooth playback aswell.

What I've come to so far is a streaming FLV of 550 by 413 pixels at 400 kbps. I've given it a buffer time value of 10 seconds. If I play this back in Flash Pro 8, playback is smooth and looks good enough. It also plays great when the SWF is loaded onto a main SWF. But if I try it from Internet Explorer the video gets choppy, even running from my hard disk. When I try it online it doesn't get worse, so I don't think it is a buffering problem.

Has anyone had any experiences like this? Any possible solutions?
And if anyone has tips in general on using video in flash, I would be more than happy to hear them.

I can point you to the site I'm working on so you can see what's going on, but it's in Dutch so I'll have to tell you how to navigate:

http://www.multimediamatters.nl (http://www.multimediamatters.nl/)

Click "Skip Leader" (that video seems to play relatively well, by the way).
Click "Hoofdmenu" (top left corner)
Click "AV Productie" (left, second from the top)
Click "ga naar categorieën" (yellow button)
Click "tv commercials" (top right)
Click any of the yellow buttons ("Nu Kan Het Nog" seems to be particularly bad)
Click "start" (top left)

Thanks in advance!

Yours,
Andra

[Al6200]

It seems logical that a browser uses up memory, which reduces how much your Flash can use up. Also consider that clients will be running other applications which can be memory hogs, and want to use your site without any serious problems.

I really don't know much about reducing lag in video. You could try reducing the bitrate and quality settings.

[mariuszn3]

I've had similar issue lately.. (that video emebedded in flash runned smoothly on FF but on IE was choppy).. I found that solve was pretty trivial - set flash movie frame rate to frame rate of video you are embedding.. It looks that IE no matter what will play movie with same rate as flash movie is set to.