Timing all off.

[ptown]

I have an flash piece that I putting on a cd rom for macs and pcs. When publish and test the swfs. on my computer the sound and animation synch correctly. When I burn the cd and try it on another computer, the sound and animation don't match up. Is it that the FLash player versions on each computer maybe differnent, the processor speed of each different computer, or am I publishing the files wrong. Please any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Tink]

on your comp everything has been played and loaded previously and is in your comps cache meaning there is no real load or processing time.

when transfered to another comp it is all new and therefore needs to be loaded etc.

you could maybe stall the player for a while (ie. preloader or something) to give other users comps time to get everything ready to play.

sounds like it could be this to me. you could test it by running it a couple of times on another comp and then see if it synch's.

hope this helps

BLEEDA

[ptown]

THnaks for the advice, Iset preloaders to all the swfs. But the timing is still off.

Any other suggestions????

[pixelwit]

You probably have your sound set as an "Event Sound" rather than a "Streaming Sound". Event sounds start at a certain time/frame but if the graphics are too heavy (difficult to draw quickly) flash will start drawing the graphics slower than it can play the sound. Normal sound rate plus slow graphic refresh rate equals poor synchronization. If a sound "streams" Flash will drop graphic frames to keep your player synched to the audio regardless of what computer you play it on.

Hope this helps,

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[ptown]

Early in the process I tried setting the audio to stream, but as a result when I published the movie the quality of the sound filed diminished. It sounded like the animation character was talking out of bottle. It sounded muffled. Any suggestions on how to change the bit rate of the audio to fix that problem.

[ptown]

Here is the web version, so you can see what I am talking about.
http://www.ie-media.com/soyisland/hi.htm

[ptown]

sorry, this is the correct address http://www.ie-media.com/soyisland/hi/hi.html

[ptown]

Please disregard the previous two posts, my head is in the clouds today. The address is http://www.ie-media.com/soyisland/hi/hi.htm

[pixelwit]

To adjust your sounds settings, go into your library, right click the sound, select properties, where it says "compression" choose MPEG, then you can adjust your sound export settings as you see fit.

Hope this helps,

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[ptown]

the only options i get are (ADPCM, Default, MP3 or default)??

[pixelwit]

Sorry, I meant MP3.

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[ptown]

okay sorry to be such a pest but when I change the sound properties, to MP3 it still sounds muffled.

[pixelwit]

Did you increase the bit rate and set the quality to "BEST"?

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[ptown]

yeah and I increased the bit rate all the way to 160 kbps.

[pixelwit]

Well, I'm out of ideas.

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[ptown]

well i appreciate all your advice. Thanks for taking time out to help a newbie.

[ptown]

HEY ,
just wanted t let you know you were right. I was setting the the sound files to MP3's in the properties box , but I forgot to change the export settings (when I would export the movie) to MP3 with the highest bit rate. Thanks again!!