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Re: [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6
From: |
Pablo Rodríguez |
Subject: |
Re: [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6 |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:20:59 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081120) |
Chris Pugh wrote:
Pablo,
You're not kidding!! Not only is your script huge, but the
resulting SWF is to boot!
Thanks for your reply and sorry for the delayed answer.
The presentation is big, since is a real presentation, but it was my
fault to show this SWF and script, since the issue is much simpler.
Are you really sure that,
- using all those 'times[xx]=yyyyy' statements is the right way to go?
I think that is the best way I have to advance slides at a certain
miliseconds. Actually I don't know a better way to do it (I'm afraid I'm
not a programmer). If you had a better way to do it, I would be pleased
if you can share it with me.
- embedding such a massive .wav file is sensible?
I embedded the wav file instead of the mp3 file, because swfc compresses
wav audio with a better compression rate and a smaller output. Otherwise
I couldn't upload the SWF outputs to my website, since my hosting
provider only allows files >8000KB and the files with the mp3 embedded
were 8.5MB in size.
- Why not convert to an MP3, then
loadSound that in instead? This seems to work in all versions of
the player that I've
tried thus far, and the added benefit for you, is that folks won't
be in the land of nod
before your slide presentation even starts! ;o)
This doesn't work for me. Using
.sound audio file.mp3
.action:
snd = new Sound();
snd.loadSound("audio",true);
.end
doesn't find any audio to play. I wonder whether Sound.loadSound might
work with audio files embedded in the SWF file itself.
But I'd appreciate the proper method for doing it if this works.
Using '.stop' on it's own kills everything, stone dead. '.stop
audio' simply stops that
particular sound object. ( check the Flash ActonScript Dictionary or
similar refs ).
I didn't know that the .stop tag (and similar) were referenced in
ActionScript guides.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by loop .. that the sound repeats
itself before the
previous one is finished, maybe?
The loop is what happens using "version=7" and ".sound audio "sound.mp3"
.stop audio". What happens it that the first half second is played and
stopped again and again (I thought this was a loop).
Why not separate out the sound play/stop sections
from the rest to check your coding one more time? I haven't even
attempted to try your
script ( for obvious reasons ), but the standard start/stop commands
seem to work aok for me,
when both attaching, and loading sounds. Tested them quite
thoroughly when writing a mini-audio
player script.
The issue is not the ActionScript (or not the slide advancer), but how
audio is embedded in versions above 6.
Here is a small script that shows the issue.
.flash bbox=800x600 filename="audio-embed.swf" version=7 fps=1
.sound audio "my_life_changed.mp3"
.stop audio
.action:
snd = new Sound();
snd.attachSound("audio");
.end
.frame 1
.action:
snd.start(snd.position/1000.0,0);
.end
.frame 2
.end
And the bug seems to be that when Flash version is above 6 and sound is
embedded and stopped as above, when SWF reaches frame 2, it restarts the
sound or the presentation itself. This happens if a frame is defined
after Sound.start, no matter whether it has contents or not. I happens
with both Flash 7 and 10 for Linux, and a file that shows this can be
found at http://ousia.justfree.com/audio-embed.swf (2.5MB).
HTH a little.
Many thanks for your help,
Regards,
Pablo
- [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6, Pablo Rodríguez, 2008/12/08
- Re: [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6, Chris Pugh, 2008/12/09
- Re: [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6,
Pablo Rodríguez <=
- Re: [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6, Boo, 2008/12/10
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- [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6, Chris Pugh, 2008/12/10
- Re: [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6, Pablo Rodríguez, 2008/12/11
- Re: [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6, Chris Pugh, 2008/12/11
- Re: [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6, Chris Pugh, 2008/12/12
- Re: [Swftools-common] adding sound with Flash > 6, Pablo Rodríguez, 2008/12/16