Comments on: H.264 and Progressive Flash Video, QTIndexSwapper 1.4 update

By: jeremyBass

jeremyBass — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:41:34 +0000

Hello, a site I am debugging has run into this issue and your fix worked for all but one… flash player 10 IE combo… I have tested and tested and made change after change… the short is a non relocated moov atom works fine in IE with flash 10… (mostly) but nothing else , obeying as described in your write up works relatively in both IE and all if the player is 9+ but if it’s 10… well in IE Iâ€™m sunk…

I have written a lot about it in experts-exchange forums
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Photos_Graphics/Web_Graphics/Macromedia_Flash/ActionScript/Q_23916033.html

the site in question is
http://www.hellscanyonsportfishing.com/ …
and the full test page is
http://www.hellscanyonsportfishing.com/testing

now the thing is that Iâ€™ve been around and around… this setup is the least numbers of clients in a non-functioning state but as player 10 grows I’ll be sol…

care to ring in… thanks for the help

jeremyBass

By: Robert Scanlon

Robert Scanlon — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:02:10 +0000

Thanks Renaun, that is an extremely helpful tool. I too am using Vegas Pro 8 with MainConcept AVC and love the improved quality over On2V6 – but how to get it to progressive download? Until I found your neat tool … many thanks!

@ Crady – I have 9.0.124 and yes, .mov files will stream without loading first no problem in IE7 and FF, but an .mp4 rendered from Sony Vegas won’t, so it’s not only Macs :)

By: Renaun Erickson

Renaun Erickson — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:05:33 +0000

FYI, the source files are in the AIR application. Just right click on a non-Text area and click “View Source”.

By: Crady

Crady — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:00:05 +0000

HI,

Your utility looks promising but I keep getting the following error: “ERROR: The MOOV atom is not located at the end of the file, the file is ready for progressive download or it is a invalid file
Completed Time: 0.359s”

I’m encoding my H.264 clips via QuickTime Pro 7.2 (from uncompressed QT originals).

During export, I’ve tried enabling and disabling the “Prepare for Internet Streaming” but it makes no difference, QT Index Swapper just returns the above error. Very frustrating as I cannot export AAC audio in AE 7 so I’m forced to use QT.

FYI — I’ve tried creating both .MP4 and .MOVs without success.

Any idea what I’m doing wrong during the encode process?

As an aside, the really odd thing is it appears only Macs are affectted by the H.264 “streaming bug” that requires your utility.

I develop on WIndows machines and have a Mac (with Flash 9.0.124.0) for testing.

Windows machines with player 9.0.124.0 can HTTP stream H.264 MOVs in Flash without any problems at all. It seems only Macs require the clips be fully downloaded before playback begins.

I’ve reported this to both Adobe and David Hassoun (author of: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/hd_video_flash_player.html) but no response.

Thanks!

-Crady

By: david johnston

david johnston — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:04:58 +0000

Hi,

Your utility is very useful! Many many thanks. It’s working well on output from Vegas using Main Concept. Significantly changes streaming.

Any hints on how to get it to batch process clusters of files?
(i tend to work with sets of clips that can be called dynamically into flash, so a batch process capable index swapper would be very very welcome)

thanks again,
David