Re: FLASH: URGENT HELP FLASH MOVIES SLOW ON SLOW PC

[John Dowdell]

Others can't tell what the difference is there, just from the description

that an older PC plays things more slowly than you'd like. General notes:


--  Tips on optimizing Flash sprites are within the Director docs, yet are

frequently overlooked!


--  The Flash Player does realtime rendering of curves to pixels. The

larger the screen area, the more pixels must be rendered for each frame.


--  Pixel-based imagery can be expensive for download time and for

processing time... even a single pixel's worth of resizing or rotation

means that the computer must interpolate new screen pixels from the source

pixels!


--  You can control how the Macromedia Flash Player resizes pixel-based

sprites by the QUALITY attribute in your HTML. (The Lingo "quality"

property for Flash sprites offers similar options.)


jd






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