RE: FLASH: Flash-Urgent: One more try (Help needed with preloading audio)

[JGL]

I can't really tell where the sound is not correlating . . . and since I am

connected to the Internet via copper phone lines here in the mountains, I am

a good test for these things . . .


I suggest this:


Fact: Movie clips do not start playing until they are completely loaded.


So, with that in mind you could make your audio a MC and not a separate

loaded .swf.


First frame of your main .swf, you could try this:

  Load a audio MC, not a .swf

  stop


first frame of your audio MC:

  Tell Target your main movie to play.


This depends on the ratio of sizes between the MC and the main movie, but I

believe I have had success before doing something similar to the above. MC's

can actually act as a preloader themselves since they don't play until

completely loaded.


 . . . i think ;)


hth


jgl





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

I need help with preloading audio.

I have an audio.swf & a main animation movie. I want to preload audio &

animation so that users could have a synchronized play.


Please check www.seeitfirst.com/2000/index2.htm in IE

If the above url is viewed in slower modems - audio does not synchronize

with animation.

I have done this before, and am following one of the tutorials, but for some

reason, it does not work right.


Here's what I did to synchronize audio & animation, but with fol steps, my

audio does not play at all.


1) Audio Movie - I put my wav file in frame 3 & label it audio.

Following are the actions in this movie.


Frame1 -

If frame is loaded ("audio")

Begin Tell Target (_level0")

Go to and Play ("done")

End Tell Target

End Frame Loaded


Frame2 -

Go to and Play (1)


Frame3 -

stop


Now for my main movie - I have 2 scenes - preload & main & I have 3 frames

in preload scene & 300 frames in main scene


Following are actions in preload scene:


Frame1 -

If Frame is Loaded (main, 300)

Go to and Stop (3)

End Frame Loaded


Frame2 -

Go to and Play (1)


Frame3 - Load Movie ("audio.swf",1)

Stop


First frame in this scene is labeled "done"

Following are the actions in Main scene of main movie.


Frame1 -

Begin Tell Target ("_level1")

Go to and Play ("audio")

End Tell Target


What am I doing wrong here - animation plays but audio does not play at all.

Would appreciate help.

TIA

Renu

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