RE: [flasher] Stalling in Download

[Mats Persson]

James,


I work with this on a almost daily basis, however, I have NOT come across

this problem as a repeated problem.


Fair enough, sometimes your connection to the server slows down, and you

loose connection and the download stalls, but this should NOT happen every

time. If it does, please do as follows:



1.  Test of your internet connection.


Look at this site - www.networkphotographers.com  - my client site, where

most features and portfolios are around 300 - 350 K.


If you experience stalls there as well, then you should change your ISP !!


(It's not foolproof, but it has worked fine since September 2000, and no

stalled downloads has been encountered on a serious basis.)



2.  Test of your host web server.


If you past test one, then you should upload the file on another web server,

and then test both of them from different computers (or with cleared browser

cache).


If this test works on the new server, but NOT on the old server, then you

should obviously get rid of the old server since it seems pretty useless.


My understanding of web servers (anyone with greater knowledge, please

correct me) is that a web server tries to complete a request as quickly as

possible and therefore - on a general load - pumps out as much data as your

browser /internet connection can manage.




3. Problem with movie.


If you past test one, but not test two, then your problem is with the file.

You should therefore look through it  carefully, and if possible rebuild it

in a clean file. (F4 could sometimes leave a deleted action still in the

file as far as I could work out when still using F4 (rarely happened, but

was my only explanation) )



I hope that should have answered your questions and concerns.


Mats

matsimediatec [dot] co [dot] uk

-----Original Message-----

From: James Kozick [

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

]

Sent: 21 January 2001 21:32

To: flasher from chinwag

Subject: [flasher] Stalling in Download



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)