Interactive Presentations from Memory Stick

[Noise]

We are looking at providing interactive presentations for distribution on memory stick and was wondering what is the best way to do it ?

 

The quandary is;

 

1. Which software to use so that the movies etc... play realtime from the stick ?

 

2. Is it better to create (effectively) a website that sources the information from the stick and plays on a web browser ? So that any movie file streams from the stick to the memory.

 

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

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[CJI]

As far as i know USB 2 supports up to 12mb/s transfer speeds. So as long as the memory stick is compliant and the Computer is compliant you could us an AVI or quicktime file to run straight from the Memory stick as long as the bitrate required to play the movie smoothly doesn't exceed this 12mb limit.

 

Don't think ive done it so i might be wrong. Try it and see what happens..haha. :-D

[BrianKitts]

there's nothing about running off a memory stick that you wouldn't encounter as a problem with sending out a presentation on a cd.... other than worrying about transfer rate as mentioned. You're still going to have to worry about if the end user has the proper video codecs on their system for playback. I've been resorting to flash video when sending out these types of presentations lately..... it's the most likely application for everyone to have installed. I love quicktime but that only covers 50% of your end users.

 

the one thing I would watch out for though is cheap memory sticks. If this is something that you're going to load 200 cheap memory sticks and send them out for be sure to get a couple first to test the transfer rate off of the stick itself. Yes USB 2.0 may have a throughput of 12mb/sec.... but alot of the cheaper sticks don't have that transfer rate. I have a few freebies from trade shows that barely transfer at USB 1.0 rates.

[ihabkal]

plus check for sustained rate. the transfer might slow and speed up causing jitter in the video

[quizzy]

I did make such a thing once. we did this in flash.

There is a free program that lets you start up internet explorer (or internet something) and start showing a specific HTM file. I would suggest you go with flash video.

And dont bother trying to get it to work with a MAC, it just does not support autorun.

[1d2d3d4d]

if you are using flash, one possibility is to make your entire presentation in flash and then export an .exe file, essentially having a custom program on the memory stick...