RE: FLASH: Flash and audio..

[Tom Kerwin]

It's all to do with compression. 


The clean, beautiful-sounding wav in Sound Forge is likely to be an

uncompressed 16-bit 44kHz stereo sample, taking up vast swathes of hard

drive space. (16 * 44100 * 2 bits = ~1.4 Mb per second)


Flash, however, is not a wave editing program, and when you play sounds in

it it plays a preview of what the end user will hear. And it uses heavy

compression to crunch the sound to make it download in a sensible time. If

you have a look in the audio compression settings you'll see a load of

options to do with sample rate, bit resolution and the rest - in here you

can increase the quality of your gritty sound, but only at the expense of

your efficient file sizes.


However, on top of this, I think some computers have a problem correctly

rendering the sound. My machine would only play flash compressed sounds

(even from swfs) in a very choppy, gappy manner - interspersed with silences

and clicks. The only solution I found to this was to upgrade my machine. My

sparkly new work laptop has no such trouble with the same files...


Tom


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simple question, how well does flash deal audio (in the sense of clarity)?

When I load audio onto my pages it sounds like crap (clippy and dirty)...

but when I run the same wav from another program (like sound forge)

it sounds clean...  I've yet to see any tutorials mention this.. anybody

else have this problem??



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