Sound Distorted in mac os X flash player

[decadnids]

Hello

i was wondering if anyone else has noticed a strange distortion in the sound when a flash movie is played in flash os X.

i have created a system that loads up external mp3's and plays then as and when needed.

some of the time it plays find (and from experience plays fine on PC's - windows)

but on mac os X - it will play with no distortion some of the time, but then for no reason will distort.

i have looked high and low on-line to see if there is any problems with how the mac os x flash player handles sounds but cant find any reference to a similiar problem - and wonder if anyone else has experienced it.

i am working in flash mx 2004. exporting out to version 7 and loading mp3's into the container movie.

[Bosworth]

are you streaming these files?

make sure to check that the compression rates (when you publish) for your mp3s are not too low - i've had problems when mistakingly re-compressing mp3s.

i assume they are not because "they play find on windows).

what about the physical conditions of the speakers on your mac. have you tried on other machines?


... wierd.

[decadnids]

are you streaming these files?

make sure to check that the compression rates (when you publish) for your mp3s are not too low - i've had problems when mistakingly re-compressing mp3s.

i assume they are not because "they play find on windows).

what about the physical conditions of the speakers on your mac. have you tried on other machines?


... wierd.

cheers for replying.

the compression rate is fine not too low, not streaming the audio, just loading it into a sound object - the mp3's are generated in audacity, so flash isnt even compressing the audio.

its a weird problem, as sometimes on the machine it will sound perfect, but then it wont.

it works fine on a PC - so i am wondering if there is a bug in the way the mac os X player handles audio.

at present it has been tested on to g5 ebooks and a brand new g5 power mac both work some of the time.

its a real pain.

[Bosworth]

so flash isnt even compressing the audio.

since you are creating these mp3s externally (as opposed to importing WAV files - and allowing flash to create your mp3s) and not streaming them - it may be possible that you are recomressing them via the publish settings (mine is set to 16 k natively - I usually up that to 48k at least). If you make a 128k mp3 and recompress it at 16k - its gonna suck ;P

and, yeah - it may be mac deals with audio differently. I'm a mac newbie - so no help here on that one.

are you running through a browser or as a projector? if a projector - then you have the added layer of the hqx file that must be unstuffed.

..... hmmmm

again - very wierd.

[decadnids]

since you are creating these mp3s externally (as opposed to importing WAV files - and allowing flash to create your mp3s) and not streaming them - it may be possible that you are recomressing them via the publish settings (mine is set to 16 k natively - I usually up that to 48k at least). If you make a 128k mp3 and recompress it at 16k - its gonna suck ;P


nah not so - i am loading them up using

loadSound - so they are not compressed when published as the files dont get loaded until the swf is run - so its got nothing to do with re-compressing already compressed mp3's

it def. seems like there is a bug in the os X flash player i reckon.

its bloody annoying.

i dont want to import the audio into flash but that might have to be the work around.

[Bosworth]

i am loading them up using loadSound -

gotcha :)

always 10 ways to do a thing.

yeah - well if thats the case - then your guess is as good as any

it def. seems like there is a bug in the os X flash player i reckon.

could very well be.

let me know if you figure it out - - - -

b({})x

[splendid]

its a bit late now but just to let you know im having exactly the same problem, except that i have embedded the audio so am compressing on publish. I thought that it was a problem with the publisher, as it seems to be fixed sometimes when i re-publish, so could have been that it didn't publish properly sometimes...but then i read this post and im not too sure anymore...ah well. Maybe try re-publishing any way.

[searchserge]

I've also run into a similar problem but with external FLV's: The sound plays wonderfully on a pc, but under OSX, it comes out scratchy and distorted. Any clues?

[scottmcscott]

i'm having a similar problem with one file in particular. i embed my audio in the timeline and have it set to streaming. most of the time my files sound fine, but this one file, has a sort of hiccup in the audio every now and then. and it happens at the same point in the animation every time.

[scottmcscott]

well i seem to have found the solution to my particular audio problem. pretty simple really.

i always compress my assets through the properties window in the library. so i had my mp3 set up to play as i desired. i went into the publish settings and noticed that it was compressing my audio to a lower quality than i desired and had set through the library. i changed these publish settings for audio and it plays just fine.

like i said, for other files, this double compression didn't seem to be a problem, but for this track - a particularly busy drum and bass number - i figure it just couldn't handle it.

[blob]

flash only suppports sampling rates

44100 Hz, 22050 Hz, 11025 Hz

other frequencies will play to fast or two slow.

here is a compatibility table
http://loudblog.de/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2268