Progress bar in asp while file is downloading

03-28-2006

Users can view mpeg movies from my website. When users who don't have
DSL, it takes longer time to launch windows media player and play the
movie. There is no indication to the users that file download is going
on. To them it appears hung.

Is there any way to show progress bar on the page while file is
downloading in the background?

My code is:

<HTML>
<BODY>
<TABLE id="Table1" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="479"
border="0" height="74">
<TR>
<TD align="center" class="HeaderText">Nalco Communications Video
Library</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD width="769" align="center">
<p class="ItemText"><a href="\videos\video1.mpg">Video1</a></p>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

Thank you.

03-29-2006

Yes you can, windows media player gives you events telling you what it is
doing such as loading playing buffering, but this is on the client side not
the server side.

I made a quick example, look at source code, look up the windows media
object at MSDN, it has many events and properties to play with

http://wanews.org/test/WM/WMEvents.asp

"shil" <> wrote in message
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> Users can view mpeg movies from my website. When users who don't have
> DSL, it takes longer time to launch windows media player and play the
> movie. There is no indication to the users that file download is going
> on. To them it appears hung.
>
> Is there any way to show progress bar on the page while file is
> downloading in the background?
>
> My code is:
>
> <HTML>
> <BODY>
> <TABLE id="Table1" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="479"
> border="0" height="74">
> <TR>
> <TD align="center" class="HeaderText">Nalco Communications Video
> Library</TD>
> </TR>
> <TR>
> <TD width="769" align="center">
> <p class="ItemText"><a href="\videos\video1.mpg">Video1</a></p>
> </TD>
> </TR>
> </TABLE>
>
>
> Thank you.
>

03-29-2006

Hi,

Can I have the source code from your example?

Appreciate your help.

03-30-2006

yes, just go to the view menu

select source

"shil" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Can I have the source code from your example?
>
> Appreciate your help.
>

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