Hi all,
Our company records conference calls that we do and we want to make them available to customers
but since they are about 10 minutes long, after editing.... they can take a while to download. So I'am trying to make a flash presentation to see if I can speed things up a bit. I have made the files individually so each call will load faster than one bulk swf. You can go to this link to see what I'm talking about http://www.opportunityconnection.com/wnl.htm

They load faster (about 3 - 5 minutes using ISDN) but my boss is wanting them to load faster. Being a novice at Flash I don't know if they can load faster, so I'm looking for any suggestions on how I can acheive this... or if it's possible.

Thanks to any suggestions in advance

Tracy




Referring URLs
http://www.opportunityconnection.com/wnl.htm

Flash uses mp3 compression.
This is not the fastest or most optimal output for sound files anymore
although it was at one time.
About the quickest you can get for streaming or download nowadays is
actually using windows media audio (wma) files. You can get these files very
tiny. (even better than real media! in quality)

as you are dealing with voice only stuff, I would suggest you get yourself a
copy of cleaner from discreet and start recompressing those files into tiny
wma files that will load super fast.

p.s, you can order cleaner from discreet through their website
(www.discreet.com)
also, while flash can be used for audio, it is not so much an audio tool,
but does a great job with audio in animations. Your other alterntive is a
copy of soundforge or plenty of other tools I guess, but cleaner is one of
the best out there and it isn't very expensive.

cheers
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: Hi all,
: Our company records conference calls that we do and we want to make
them available to customers
: but since they are about 10 minutes long, after editing.... they can take
a while to download. So I'am trying to make a flash presentation to see if I
can speed things up a bit. I have made the files individually so each call
will load faster than one bulk swf. You can go to this link to see what I'm
talking about http://www.opportunityconnection.com/wnl.htm
:
: They load faster (about 3 - 5 minutes using ISDN) but my boss is wanting
them to load faster. Being a novice at Flash I don't know if they can load
faster, so I'm looking for any suggestions on how I can acheive this... or
if it's possible.
:
: Thanks to any suggestions in advance
:
: Tracy
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: Referring URLs
: http://www.opportunityconnection.com/wnl.htm
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are you streaming them? also what kind of files are they? if you are using .wav files you shoudl think about MP3 options, you can get away for voice only with MP3 encoded at about 50 to 70 kb/s bitrate and no probs hearing all parts, maybe even less bitrate, you should experiment with audio compressions first, get the absolute smallest one that sounds ok, and with mp3 you can stream np at all through flash and for 10 minutes of mono audio compressed to hell it shoudl start almost instantly using streaming loadSound

Thanks for your response Chris,
I'm using mp3 files

yes but you are not streaming them in that demo, they are pre loading yes? there is no way you can do more then the bandwidth you have available, other then the compression type of your media, so instead you can fool your user by streaming instead of playing as a loaded clip. just make sure you include "true" at the end of your loadSound command

Chris Alpiar
Too Much Reverb

That did the trick

Thanks for all your help Chris