Hmm...Windows 98 is a bit scary, but it depends if a) you want to play the 'minimum specs' card, or b) try and do a bit of handholding to get to the bottom of the problem.
If A), then show her this: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/ If B) do you dispose of each flv once its been used? Or are there objects hanging around in memory that could cause an old PC to crumble? Can you create version6 or 7 fla's (without the v2 component) to see if it's anthing to do with the component? Are the flv's large (in file size)? And last question, what is the behaviour of 'not working'? Hangs? Crashes? One other thing, on your XP machine check how much virtual memory is being used by the SAFlashPlayer.exe in task manager (assuming it is the standalone flash player that's rendering your swf/flv's and not an IE window). Could be a useful number to compare against the Win98 memory available. Cheers, Nick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karina Steffens Sent: 24 November 2005 16:26 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] Flvs fail to stream on an older pc Hi List, I'm on the last stages of development of an educational CD-Rom in FlashMX 2004. The application uses a v2 media component loads flvs from the CD-Rom. It's been developed on a pc (XP) and then zipped over and burned on the Mac (OSX) and set to the client. The client has an old mac and an even older PC (which still uses windows 98...). The CD-Rom loads on both, but the flvs seem to work on her mac but not on the pc (except for one or two). She also says that an earlier version of the CD-Rom that I sent her does work, which is puzzling. Also, there is a little test utility just for the Flvs on the CD-Rom, and that also works. My application loads various swfs into a base swf file, and the flvs are loaded to that, so it could be a memory thing. I can't run any of the tests myself, because I'm based in Dublin and she is in London, so I don't know what to do. I tried to tell her that her PC is just too old for the software, and I still haven't got any data from her about how much memory it has. She's not very technical. Does anyone have any ideas, solutions or minimum specs for this problem? Thanks, Karina Karina Steffens | Neo-Archaic creative & technical new media design <http://www.neo-archaic.net/> www.neo-archaic.net _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
