Stalling in Download

[James Kozick]

A client asked me to create a Flash movie that included several vector text

screens and bitmap jpegs.  I used Flash 4.


Due to the bitmaps, it's a pretty hefty 216K movie.  Occasionally the movie

stalls in the download and doesn't complete.  (It appears that the download

streaming stops and will not restart.)


I found that if I brought the jpegs into Flash at too low a file size they looked

blurry after compression in Flash.  (The jpeg compression setting was at 50 in

the Flash exporter.)


Other than tossing out a bunch of the jpegs, any other suggestions on preventing

a movie like this from stalling?


Also, is stalling a result of file size per se or that the server may have been

too busy with this streaming demand, went on to other downloads and never

returned?


Thanks!


James Kozick

Pacific MicroMedia

Olympia, WA

jamespacificmm [dot] com (mailto:jamespacificmm [dot] com)