Re: FLASH: Sound not heard (saga continues)

[John Croteau]

Hi Courage,


> Well, we seem to be missing something or are having problems

> with our servers or something. Seems like two of our intros

> are having continuous problems.

> http://www.y2kford.com we have now inserted John's (thank's

> for people like you John C.) preloader to that one, with the

> stop on the first frame, 5 quotes minimum play while movie

> loads. File size is 166K, 489 frames, if we let it stream,

> it stumbles, if we preload the whole thing, it sometimes on

> some connections, doesn't seem to be actually preloading all

> the way, will get stuck etc, though this isn't everytime for

> everybody. We are really at a loss and could use some

> insight. We have generated a size report, though don't

> really know WHAT to look for as it is all pretty even

> flowing from looking at it.

While connecting to your site I got very erratic internet conditions.

Seemed to be caused by a Sprint.Net router or line that may be common.

The rate was 33K bps most of the time but slowed down to about 1.8 K bps

on one attempt. With speed like that where there is little flow of data

at times preloading everything is recommended.


Also the MIME is not set onn your server when leaving your Flash page my

Netscape 4 browser crashes every time.

See --->  http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/Server/Index.htm


Until you are sure the internet problem is solved I would preload

everything and if the connection stalls it will stall in the preloaded

and they will just keep getting the random text.

You need to contact your server administrator on both the MIME and the

intermittent internet condition so they try to find out where the

problem is and submit a repair order (probably to Sprint.net).


Once you are sure you are over the web problem try setting the preloaded

at about half (250) and that will probably be about right. It seems you

are using streming sound, if you do not need exact sync then you can use

Event sound and save a lot of bytes which works great if you are using a

preloader.


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