FLASH: Forcing frame drop using streamed silence...

[Jules]

I'm working on an animation at the moment that allready requires a fairly

porky PC for perfect playback, however i never wanted to exclude lower spec

machines, I thought i had created a solution to this by using streaming

sound - by inserting a tiny silent sound and looping it throughout the

animation it is possible to force flash to perform standard streaming

framedrop, using this the animation plays back OK on lowerspec machines.

Unfortunatly what i didn't realise was flash does not instance looped

streaming sounds, this is a big problem as the file size has gone from 300k

to 700k just from the repeating sound. I have tried putting a shorter loop

inside a MC that plays throughout but stream sounds seem to 'stutter' flash

playback, so everytime it repeats the loop the animation 'stutters'. Are

there any other methods people know to force frame drop on playback? Please

help, otherwise I'm in a big old pile of shit.


Cheers all


jules




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