Flash CD Rom
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- legspin
Hi all...I'm currently working on a CD Rom and need to load a swf file into the main movie which has an mpg embedded into it. It's size is about 14,000 KB so is quite large and is taking an age to load into the movie when read from a CD. Is there someway around this such as streaming or caching? If so how do you do it? Is there any sites you can direct me to?
Cheers
- del_razor0
Hello..
i ran into this problem when producing a CD myself once..
there's a couple of things you can do..
first thing's first.. go on www.macromedia.com and make sure you have every update possible.. both to the player and the software itself.. as this can actually effect your output movies..ok.. here's a suggestion..
if when the CD first starts.. it doesn't need to show video right off.. my suggestion is to do this..
setup a blank text file.. have a variable that continuously calls that text file as it's source.. (this way the CD never slows or speeds down to stop)
do a loadMovie and load your external swf movies in that way.. however.. do this way before you need them... in otherwords.. grab them for 1 frame.. (to bring them into RAM) and do it off stage.. that way the end user never see's a problem..
let me know if this helps.. flash CD's are a bit tricky..
- Stylus0
use flv (flash video) for your movies and the CD will play em silky smooth
- ********0
XML
- ********0
you can always reduce the hell out of yor movie using a utiity called Sorenson Squeeze at http://www.sorenson.com
- Stylus0
you can stream flv files of a CD using the netConnection object and the netStream class
- ********0
stylus is right though, your better off utilizing the .flv options that work with Macromedia flash MX 2004 Professional. Throw some AS in there and powie.
- legspin0
Thanks everyone that responded. I'm in the middle of tested them.
cheers.
- ********0
14,000 kB is way bigger than we recommend...SWFs should generally be an absolute maximum of 3MB... try splitting it and stitching together.....
If you're using Flash MX 2004 you can use the MovieClip loader class to control the load order ..
cha ching!
- legspin0
If the mpg is massive and I have embedded it how can I keep the file size down? How could I split and stitch? I'm at a loss I really am. Aaargghh!!!
- ********0
You can't really do that if your mpg is that size.... sorry misunderstood that bit... works your answer would be to link to an FLV as previously suggested by stylus and JazX
OR
use sorenson and "squeeze" them, this will give you a number of SWFs that "stitch" together....
- legspin0
thanks MX_OnD
I've downloaded sorenson but I also needed to download DirectX 9.0 as well which is taking an age.
How do the swf's work after being squeezed. Will I have to keep loading each one into the movieclip with AS or will the software take care of that???
- ********0
To be honest I don't have 1st hand experience of doing it but from what I hear it writes the AS for you too.....
- ********0
Sorenson Squeeze will help you man, listen up. ;)