Re: FLASH: Director 7 (now: Flash calcs)

[David Gary]

John Dowdell wrote:


> At 5:37 AM 11/18/98, David Gary wrote:

> >Im really more interested in knowing why a .mov or avi. format will play so

> >much smoother on a lower end processor and why Flash3 player chokes the

> >processor

> >when playing the imported images in swf format?  Why such a drastic decrease

> >in Flash's performance?

>

> During playback, the Flash engine is turning vector instructions into

> pixels. It calculates and colors curves.

>

> This realtime rendering requires different abilities of the computer than

> just the decompression that a video codec requires. A low-end machine will

> often find it easier to decompress, than to render curves to pixels on the

> fly.


Man Im glad someone answered that question. Thanks alot John for the

enlightenment.


-DG-



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