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Flash Video Players
I really hate most Flash Video Players. These are the issues I typically have with them:
- They start playing / downloading automatically when the page is loaded.
- This is bad for African conditions where bandwidth is severely limited and bitcaps are often in place. There's no room for wasting bandwidth, so I want them to wait until I click the "play" button (therefore, I really want to watch the video).
- When the player reaches the end of the video, it starts downloading all over from the start when you want to play it again.
- Also bad for African conditions.
- There's no way to get back to the page on the original video sharing site if the video is embedded on a blog somewhere.
- What if I want to go check out what others said in the comments on the video sharing site, or anything else? Maybe I want to link to the video from my own blog without embedding...
Youtube seems to get most of these right, except that the video automatically starts playing when you visit the video's page on youtube.com. This is irritating as well because sometimes I just want to have the page open to read comments after viewing the video on some other site. But yeah, not everybody is used to retarded African bandwidth and ridiculous bitcaps so I guess that's fair enough.
Copyright © 2004-2009 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
2 Comments
Comment by
confluence on Monday, December 31, 2007 10:18:00 AM
If you use a mozilla-based browser, there's an extension called Flashblock which replaces all flash animations with boxes that you can click on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
It seems to support a wide range of browsers. I have had an old version enabled in Galeon for a while (after some fiddling with the chrome folder), and it works very well. :)
Comment by
Charl van Niekerk on Monday, December 31, 2007 12:59:00 PM
Thanks for the tip, that's really cool! Will certainly check it out!
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