I think I can help. What I suggest is that you become familiar with free and excellent Flowplayer and use it to embed your media files. Here is a link: http://flowplayer.org/
Flowplayer has lots of tools for scripters and jQuery developers. It has two methods that I've found that may be of use to you: stopBuffering() and... onBufferStop There's also onBufferFull and onBufferEmpty There are also a host of other methods that Flowplayer has that you may find useful. See this documentation: http://flowplayer.org/documentation/configuration/clips.html http://flowplayer.org/apidoc/org/flowplayer/controller/StreamProvider.html Good luck. On Sep 24, 8:51 am, RealMason <st...@tangentnet.com> wrote: > I'm a total jquery newbie and I'm just trying to find out if something > is possible. > > If I have a full album worth of songs that I want to list on a web > page, can I use jquery to only embed the quicktime file after the user > clicks on a play button for that track. > > Similar to Amazon's or iTunes play button per track. > > The way I'm doing it right now, every song is embedded and therefore > is progressively downloading and soaking up bandwidth even though the > user may only listen to one song (or none). > > Essentially, I want the song to only progressively download IF the > user clicks play. > > I am NOT asking about autoplay versus click to play... instead my > question is about controlling the point in time that the file gets > embedded and starts downloading to the browser. > > Any direction would be appreciated. I do have the "jquery.media.js" > plug in. > > My ideal solution would be a list of song titles and a play button. > When the user clicks the play button, the quicktime play is revealed > below the title and ONLY at that moment does the file start > downloading. > > Thanks.
