http://www.yockeys.com/529/ky.html
took about 20 minutes, i made it to send to my grandparents
and even on dial up it runs pretty fast and running a jukebox should be less
of course u could use flash comm
u could even speed that up using remoting
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Dick Applebaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:06:22 -0700
>The main reason is the Flash overhead.
>
>I have played around quite a bit with Flash in general, and a mp3
>player in particular.
>
>Flash is just too CPU intensive -- open 2 or 3 browser windows the the
>Macromedia site & it will affect the performance of other apps on your
>desktop. I am not saying that the normal user will do this, but it
>illustrates the overhead of Flash.
>
>This particular Jukebox is for friends and family all across the globe.
>
>Many of them have older computers and slow (or dial up Internet
>connections).
>
>I figure, if I can do it all in the QT plugin, the user would avoid:
>
>1) downloading the .swf movie
>2) the CPU cycles used by Flash whether it is doing anything or not (I
>have documented this in prior threads)
>
>There will be various types of content:
>
>1) songs -- normal mp3 files. (an iTunes-like interface)
>2) complete videos (with live sound, possibly narration over, and bg
>music)
>3) photo albums
>4) text snippets
>5) narration
>6) menus, controls and links
>7) slide shows including all of the above.
>
>It appears that all this can be done with QT, WMP, and RM with a
>desktop player or browser plugin.
>
>There is an XML language for this purpose called SMIL. With SMIL you
>can put together a preso (and that's what this is, in reality) based on
>a simple XML text file. SMIL, in effect is a text-driven (XML)
>substitute for the Flash stage & timeline. In face, you can include
>Flash movies as part of a SMIL preso.
>
>So, instead of a desktop player or browser plugin, playing a mp3, mov,
>or swf -- it can play a .smi ( which can invoke all; the others (and a
>lot more).
>
> From what I have experienced so far, I can be playing an annotated
>slideshow with bg mp3 in (much) less time than it would tahe to
>download an swf (and a much less CPU overhead on the client)
>
>For example (if you have Safari or IE6) go to my site at:
>
>http://67.124.145.42/cfusion/mymedia/
>
>then click the "Play SMI Playlist" button at the bottom.
>
>On my machine it takes 3-4 secs to start playing the SMI -- no delay
>for swf download, no sticky feeling that you get with most Flash
>sites..
>
>The SMIL file is displays the images, calls a BG mp3, and calls a
>streaming txt file that does the captioning.
>
>This is a work in progress, so I don't have all the captions, yet.
>
>If you click on the third image (Closeup of Lucy) it wi open another
>browser window and link to Apple's site.
>
>There are actually for parts to this preso:
>1) the slide show with several things going on in parallel
>2) a second short audio
>3) a third audio
>4) a short QT movie with an audio soundtrack.
>
>I think I am on the right trach,
>
>That said, this will be open source & other people have expressed a
>desire to add a Flash front end.
>
>The more, the merrier!
>
>Dick
>
>"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
>choose from."
>- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
>
>On Jul 24, 2004, at 8:41 PM, dave wrote:
>
>> somewhere i have some code for a pretty good cf jukebox thingy
>> but why do that when u can easily make a kick ass one in flash?
>>
>
>
>
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