adamtw
02-18-2009, 06:24 PM
Hi all
I'm not exactly super profficient with HTML but I kinda know what I'm doing.
I'm making a html document for the place that i work which stors quite large video files ona server (in the order of 1.5 to 2gig).
I have the HTML document on another server, however. Basicaly what i want to do (and this is a very simplified version of my goal but its where the problem lies) is to have links from that HTML to the video files on the video server. So you click the link and it asks you if you want to save it or open it etc..
So this seems fairly simple... i've just got a
<a href="\\videoservername\vod$\video_library\example.mpg">Click Here</a>
which works but INCREDIBLY SLOWLY. I mean i knew it would take 5 minutes to copy the videos across... which it does if i link to the directory of the video rather than the video itself. So thats all good. But when its linked directly to the video file it takes a good 15 minutes between the 'Save or open' box and the 'where do you want to save' box. Once it does come up it saves in about 5 minutes like expected.
I just dont get why it takes so long for the 'where would you like to save' to come up.
If anyone knows a way around this or could even exaplain why its like this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Adam
I'm not exactly super profficient with HTML but I kinda know what I'm doing.
I'm making a html document for the place that i work which stors quite large video files ona server (in the order of 1.5 to 2gig).
I have the HTML document on another server, however. Basicaly what i want to do (and this is a very simplified version of my goal but its where the problem lies) is to have links from that HTML to the video files on the video server. So you click the link and it asks you if you want to save it or open it etc..
So this seems fairly simple... i've just got a
<a href="\\videoservername\vod$\video_library\example.mpg">Click Here</a>
which works but INCREDIBLY SLOWLY. I mean i knew it would take 5 minutes to copy the videos across... which it does if i link to the directory of the video rather than the video itself. So thats all good. But when its linked directly to the video file it takes a good 15 minutes between the 'Save or open' box and the 'where do you want to save' box. Once it does come up it saves in about 5 minutes like expected.
I just dont get why it takes so long for the 'where would you like to save' to come up.
If anyone knows a way around this or could even exaplain why its like this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Adam