Re: FLASH: Flash for Director (was: SWA)

[John Dowdell]

At 6:54 PM 8/27/98, Roy Pardi wrote:

>Have you used the 'stream' command for Flash asset in MMD?


Sorry, Roy, I haven't tested through that feature set myself yet... sounds

like you're seeing that Director can pre-cache the Flash asset, but won't

explode it into memory for instant access until other assets come down the

wire...?


(fwiw, the older Lingo "preload" commands were architected to draw from

hard drive into RAM, and later from CD into RAM. They were overloaded to

handle background-loading in D5: identical syntax would trickle media into

RAM during idle microseconds. The net-caching Lingo and streaming Lingo

used a different architecture, which is why we have explicit streaming

commands to pull files from around the web... couldn't risk overloading the

old terms a third way. <g> Compressed distant media has three potential

hits during display: retrieve from distant storage, retrieve from local

storage, and decompress.)


Hmm, on a re-read, the streaming commands in Director let you handle

different media in different ways... if you preloadNetThing a SWF before

display then you'd have to wait until it's done, but you can make the Flash

stream within the streaming Director too. Might this be along the lines of

what you're looking at there...?


jd





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