RE: FLASH: Loading Multiple Movies

[Dave Hollinden]

You might try loading the movies in sequence, one at a time, and see if that

changes anything.  I remember doing some experiments once, and I don't

remember the results exactly, but I believe that Netscape will only load two

movies at a time and then move on to the others when you issue multiple

LoadMovie actions, whereas IE will load them all simultaneously.


To test this, make a set of movies of different sizes with a uniform content

stream throughout, and try loading them all at the same time.  When I did it

I put a large audio file in the first frame of each movie and set it to

stream, so that there was the same amount of data in each frame throughout

the movie, and then added varying numbers of frames such as 100, 200, 300

and 400 frames in each of the movies.  Then I added a frame number indicator

in another layer so that I could monitor how many frames had been loaded.

Then make a master movie that loads all four of these movies at once, and

you can see how the browser and platform combe deals with multiple load

movies. 


Dave Hollinden

Web Design Team Lead

dhollindensonicfoundry [dot] com

-----Original Message-----

From: Cheri Harder [

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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 1:38 PM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: Re: FLASH: Loading Multiple Movies



Alex - could it be that the MIME isn't set on the server you're testing it

on?  That will produce inconsistencies, I've been told, and it does seem

like Netscape is more finicky...


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Alex Beckett" <

alexbnitromedia [dot] com

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To: <

flasherchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 8:19 AM

Subject: FLASH: Loading Multiple Movies



> Hi Flashers,

>

> I was just wondering if anyone else has experience loading multiple

movies? I've got a preloader that's loading 4 different .swf's. The way it

works is like this: Each movie is on a separate layer and loads to a blank

frame. Once each movie is loaded, it adds one to a variable on level 0

called movieCount. Once this varible reaches 4, meaning all 4 movies have

loaded, the first movie begins to play. This all works fine locally. When I

test it online however, I get inconsistent results. In Netscape, for

example, the first movie will only load 160K no matter what, so it never

loads the end and therefore never sends the variable that it is done The

first movie also never even shows up in the Netscape status bar. In Internet

Explorer, it worked perfectly for me, but two of my co-workers experienced

problems loading and viewing. Unfortunatly I can't post the URL because of

NDA. I'm just wondering if anyone else has had similar problems? Does the

Netscape plug-in have some kind of l!

> imitation for multiple pre-loading?

> As far as I can tell, this should work fine, and it did on my machine, so

that shows that the logic is right (it's really not very complicated). I

just don't know what else to try and the deadline is quickly approaching...

Any input is greatly appreciated.

>

> TIA

> alex beckett



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