FLASH: plugin streaming / processor usage

[Eric Bogs]

I've been researching various sound/Flash combos ... after being impressed

with the audio and interactivity at Echo

(http://www.echo.com/index_invitation.jsp?ref=196453), I tried to take a

crack at my own Flash/audio interactivity.


If you check out my personal site, http://bo.gs/2, you might notice that I

actually use two Flash 5 plugin instances (that is, 2xOBJECT/EMBED).

There's one main one that handles the movie, and then one smaller one which

does nothing but stream the audio.


The reason that I had to use this second plugin was that everything was just

too slow, processor wise, when it was all lumped in to one plugin.  When I

had one plugin doing the animations, loading variables, -and- loading and

playing the music SWF, it just ground to a halt.


I'm pretty pleased with the performance after switching to two plugins ...

just wanted to pass this on and see if anyone has any ideas why there would

be a difference in performance.  Does the browser allocate more

memory/processor to each plugin instance?


-Eric



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