Re: FLASH: 2 quick questions

[Jefferis]

John C wrote:

>

>> 1]

>> I remember a discussion, but not the answer about MP3 and Flash 4.

>> For the smallest, most compressed sounds, should you import .wav, .aiff

>> sounds into MP3 and then export/import them into Flash?

>Flash does NOT allow import of MP3 sound. Flash 4 does allow compression

>of sound (wav for PC & aiff for Mac) using MP3 compression within the

>Flash 4 file.


So Flash 4 has the benefit of the small files and quality of MP3? 

>> 2]

>> Any way to detect the connection speed of your client?

>Yes this can be done in Flash 4, by comparing the amount of downloaded

>bytes compared to the elapsed time. This will return the actual

>connection speed and not the type of connection. 


So, you could then, use a redirect sequence in Flash 4 and send them to 

different quality of .swf files?  Sort of like having a low res version 

of images in html? 


Or is it better just to have the user pick their connections speed, like 

I have seen on many QT sites?


Jeff


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