Re: FLASH: Optimizing loading of large movies

[John Croteau]

Hi Chris,


> I'm working on an intranet which uses flash & generator quite a bit.

> The home page recently became rather large (the swt is approx 180k) when

> the client

> decided to add a slideshow of 8-10 bitmaps. The home page is very simple,

> really.

> If it didn't have the slideshow and if it wasn't a generator template it

> would be

> around 30k. The slideshow is designed to stream (which it does, nicely,

> even over

> a 28.8) and the navigation loads very quickly which is just what I want.

> The problem is that although the navigation loads very quickly even on a

> 28.8 connection, it isn't actually "hot" or active until the movie

> finishes loading.

> Now, this problem isn't terribly serious to me on this project because

> it's an intranet which almost nobody will be using with anything other

> than a T1. However I'd like to know if there is anything I can do to

> force the navigation to be functional as soon as it's loaded & visible on

> screen.

> The site can be viewed (for a short time) at: http://209.141.236.66/

> Keep in mind that it is designed to be used exclusively on IE4 on PCs

> with 800x600 res & 16 bit color (I love intranets! Where else can you

> find out what EVERY user will be using?)


There is no reason for the buttons not to be functional before the

bitmap portion is loaded. Just make sure the bitmaps are on later frames

than the buttons.


Also 30K seems high for the content. I'm guessing the bitmap tile

backgound is not tiled in Flash and this may be the cause.

The use of 4 fonts does contribute to the size also. It's nice when you

don't have to worry about download size too much.


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