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Old 12-10-2007, 09:05 AM  
Kevin Marx
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Originally Posted by NinjaSteve View Post
Is there a way to stop the FLV from being loaded up like a youtube vid? Firefox and IE7 have tabs and I've done it and seen people load 5+ tabs and play/pause the video for it to load. If they do that do you think it could use more bandwidth than people hotlinking? Also when I think of hot linking I think of galleries and tour trailers.
yes.. it has to do with the autoplay feature. Look for it when you are encoding the video. If you have a custom .flv player, you can also set it to not download the file until the play button is clicked.

Both good ways to save on bandwidth.
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