Playing sound while loading

robUx4 · 04-13-2001, 12:44 PM

Is there a way to start playing a sound while it's loading ?

I have to integrate a 5 minutes track into a very basic flash animation. And it's really boring to have to wait for the whole track to be loaded to start using it. Especially because the track have a slow fade-in, so nobody will notice it's there, unlesse you wait for the whole thing to be loaded...

Is streaming the clue ? (doesn't seem like with the previewer in Flash 5 + streaming)

Is loading a flash anim (level 1 or more) efficient to enable the loading in paralell of 2 or more .swf ?

Jesse · 04-14-2001, 04:01 AM

You can use streaming sounds but this may result in jagged playback as the sounds might not have time to buffer correctly...

Insert your sound and select the streaming method. I've foundn the best way to do this is actually to create a blank MC and insert the sound in there, because with the streaming method you have to have a sufficient number of frames in the clip to play through the whole sound. So if you have a frame rate of 15fps, and a 2 second sound, you will need 30 frames to play the sound fully, and you don't want to go adding 30 empty frames to yourmain timeline. So create an MC with 30 frames, put the sound (streming) in the first frame, and put the MC on your stage.

Cheers

Jesse

robUx4 · 04-14-2001, 09:06 AM

Thanx !

I think it should work. I've put the sound in another flash animation. But I've found out that even in RAW mode, my WAV file doesn't sound exactly the same as the original

(MISE vs Winamp) It's a bit subtle, but you can hear more trebble than it should

By the way, if I load the sound/SWF at level 1, does it have to use the same framerate as the main SWF ?

Jesse · 04-14-2001, 11:07 AM

Yeah it does, it will default to the main movies FPS anyway (or at least it did in Flash 4...)

Cheers

Jesse

04-14-2001, 04:01 AM	#2
Jesse Administrator Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Australia Posts: 8,612	You can use streaming sounds but this may result in jagged playback as the sounds might not have time to buffer correctly... Insert your sound and select the streaming method. I've foundn the best way to do this is actually to create a blank MC and insert the sound in there, because with the streaming method you have to have a sufficient number of frames in the clip to play through the whole sound. So if you have a frame rate of 15fps, and a 2 second sound, you will need 30 frames to play the sound fully, and you don't want to go adding 30 empty frames to yourmain timeline. So create an MC with 30 frames, put the sound (streming) in the first frame, and put the MC on your stage. Cheers Jesse __________________ Cheers Jesse Stratford ActionScript.org Cofounder Email: presented in this way to stop spam-bots: My email is composed of my first name (jesse) followed by my last name (stratford) followed by @ followed by actionscript.org Please don't email or PM me Flash questions, that's what the Forums are for! Please don't rely on me reading my PMs either. Email me about important stuff.

04-14-2001, 11:07 AM	#4
Jesse Administrator Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Australia Posts: 8,612	Yeah it does, it will default to the main movies FPS anyway (or at least it did in Flash 4...) Cheers Jesse __________________ Cheers Jesse Stratford ActionScript.org Cofounder Email: presented in this way to stop spam-bots: My email is composed of my first name (jesse) followed by my last name (stratford) followed by @ followed by actionscript.org Please don't email or PM me Flash questions, that's what the Forums are for! Please don't rely on me reading my PMs either. Email me about important stuff.

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04-13-2001, 12:44 PM	#1
robUx4 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Paris Posts: 3	Is there a way to start playing a sound while it's loading ? I have to integrate a 5 minutes track into a very basic flash animation. And it's really boring to have to wait for the whole track to be loaded to start using it. Especially because the track have a slow fade-in, so nobody will notice it's there, unlesse you wait for the whole thing to be loaded... Is streaming the clue ? (doesn't seem like with the previewer in Flash 5 + streaming) Is loading a flash anim (level 1 or more) efficient to enable the loading in paralell of 2 or more .swf ?


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04-14-2001, 09:06 AM	#3
robUx4 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Paris Posts: 3	Thanx ! I think it should work. I've put the sound in another flash animation. But I've found out that even in RAW mode, my WAV file doesn't sound exactly the same as the original (MISE vs Winamp) It's a bit subtle, but you can hear more trebble than it should By the way, if I load the sound/SWF at level 1, does it have to use the same framerate as the main SWF ?