RE: FLASH: MP3 and Flash size problem URGENT

[sahlan cherpitel]

F4 fla size is unavoidably large using mp3


mostly use MIDI, occasionally mp3 when we have special-interest audience

with a large proportion of broadband (believe it or not 50% of the 24,000

bikers at the Love Ride appeared to have broadband)


 http://sun4.com/loveride.html


that site uses a 3 meg mp3, converted to & imported as an a 15 meg aiff

(mono--stereo was 30 megs) about 10 megs per minute of music, this a 3 min

piece


flash at 16 bits (lowest rate to deliver acceptable sound quality) reduces

file to 300k roughly---now that's compression!


this still takes just over a minute to load on dial-up, though only a couple

of seconds on dsl


no way to avoid long publishing time


we're still using F4 on G3 300 with 320 RAM + virtual memory on as fla has

so many images that flash seems to require at least 450 RAM to function


friend on G4 using F5 reports that import of mp3 took forever, which was not

true of the aiff on F4


fla is huge (21 megs) --- swf is huge (6 megs, all but the 300k are 170

quality photo images) but it plays on dial-up without stalling unless

someone clicks through too quickly


stalls badly on macs with low ram or low memory allocation to browser


nothing is perfect & one will never please everybody


the way of the web


cheers


s


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>

> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:16:25 -0800 (PST)

>

From: Kristopher Wainwright <wainwrightkyahoo [dot] com>

> Subject: RE: FLASH: MP3 and Flash size problem URGENT

>

> Thats true for F4 ....

>

> But not nessecarily true for F5.

>

>

> Kris Sends .....

>

- --- Andy Perkins <andydevelopmental [dot] co [dot] uk> wrote:

>> Sorry, I disagree...

>>

>> Use completely uncompressed sound when you import it

>> into flash. Set bit

>> rate and quality of the mp3 in File->Publish

>> settings->Flash

>>

>> double compressing the sound will destroy the

>> quality.

>>

>> Make sure the sound is in mono if you are trying to

>> save space.

>>

>> Have you considered using a loop instead of the

>> whole tune?

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>

> From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On

>> Behalf Of

>> Kristopher Wainwright

>> Sent: 18 January 2001 17:34

>

> To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>> Subject: Re: FLASH: MP3 and Flash size problem

>> URGENT

>>

>>

>>

>> You need a good program like Cool Edit Pro or Sonic

>> Foundry to reduce the bit rate of the MP3 and crunch

>> it's size down.

>>

>>

>> Kris Sends .....

>> --- TESTER-KIRBY Cheryle

>

> <C [dot] Tester-Kirbyhermes [dot] co [dot] uk>

>> wrote:

>>>

>>> I have produced a site using a 5mb MP3 file.When a

>>> user clicks on a button

>>> the MP3 file will play... but the file is too

>> large

>>> so takes ages to load.

>>> Has anyone got an ideas of what I can do, I see

>> some

>>> many sites with music

>>> playing... how do they do that!!!!!!!! Or how do

>>> people download the music -

>>> is that a better idea

>>>

>>> Please please help

>>>

>>> Many thanks

>>>

>>> Cheryle Tester-Kirby

>>> Hermes Administration Services Ltd



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