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Author Sound Preloader or another way?
jlabsher

2005-06-17, 7:27 pm

I have what is basically a powerpoint presentation with narration that I made
into a flash presentation. It has about 13MB of MP3s none of which is bigger
than 600KB. Obviously this loads slowly, I'm trying to figure out the best way
to do it.

If I break it down into 15 smaller .SWFs it will pause between each one while
loading, so it won't be a seamless presentation. I was trying to load the
sound for movie 2 while movie 1 was playing, but couldn't get that to work.

If I leave it as one big .FLA it will take forever to load and a sound
preloader isn't working for me. I know that flash preloads the sound before
entering frame 1 so a normal preloader won't work. I tried creating 2 files:
one SWF that just has the sound and another with the animation and actionscript
to play it at the correct time. For some reason I can't get that to work.

I was thinking that leaving it as one big .FLA may be easier to add closed
captioning to, but I know that breaking it into several smaller files will be
easier to update.

Anyone have any input or suggestions as to which way to go, and PLEASE any
coding suggestions? This thing makes my brain hurt!

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