I can't say anything about Apples latest and greatest, but back in OS 9
days, Flash would simply not work on a Mac, development or playback. I gave
up using Flash for quite a while because of this very problem, oh, and my
boss at the time was a Mac addict so everything I made had to work on his
machine, a titanium laptop. I could crash his laptop with Flash content that
didn't have any problems on a P2 233 windows machine. During this time I
reported my findings and problems to various news groups and such. At the
time, no one wanted to talk about the problems Macs had with internet
applications and Flash, or my threads turned to a "Macs are "better" than
PCs,(and visa versa)". I have since changed my ways, and simply don't
consider the Mac development environment for Flash, or HTML for that matter.
I hear Macs do fine with print, audio and video development, but from my
experience, anything internet related is easier to develop and plays better
on a PC. So, if a Mac is all you have, I guess you'll have to use it and put
up with all the problems. If I were you, I would look into changing over to
PC's for Web Dev and the like. But hey, Macs make a great MP3 player...lol.
But don't get me wrong, I would love to have a fast Mac to run Avid and
Protools for film development.
Good luck to you,
Jon
[quoted text, click to view] "karma-lab" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I have several Windows Machines (XP, 2KP), and several Macs (OS 9, OS X
>10.3.9).
>
> I have created .flv video files, and a flash video player. Using Flash 7
> Players, Flash MX Pro 2004. I used Squeeze 4.1 to convert from QT files to
> .flv, encoding a data rate of 15 fps and about 1000 kbps.
>
> It works great on Windows, terrible on the Mac (when deployed on the
> internet). The main problem seems to be that the frames per second rate
> (which
> is encoded at 15 fps in the Flash Files) cannot keep up on the Macs. I'm
> using
> NetConnectioon and NetStream classes to playback. With NetStream, there is
> the
> ns.currentFps property that you can watch to see what the current fps
> playback
> rate is.
>
> But these are not necessarily slow Macs. The Windows machines are not
> amazingly fast either. Yet they consistently keep up at about 15 fps, and
> the
> whole experience just works, while the Macs have a hard time playing 12
> fps,
> and keep dropping down to 4-5 fps for periods of time. So the video gets
> completely backed up and out of sync with the audio during playback. Also,
> the
> scrubber bar and other controls I've implemented seem more responsive on
> the
> Windows version.
>
> I'm just wondering if Flash is just inherently better on Windows, if the
> Flash
> Player is just better, etc. I've noticed that creating content with Flash
> MX on
> Windows seems noticably more responsive than running the same program
> under Mac
> OS X.
>
> All my experiments so far seem to indicate that Flash video and animations
> just playback choppy on Macs, and smoothly on Windows. Anybody know
> anything
> about this?
>
