Hi Karina I have had similar problems like you.
My cd-rom in question had 2 videos (both external flvs to profit f7's smaller memory footprint advantage over f6 regarding videos) Both videos was rather big in pixel size and approx 3 mins length (about 30 megabytes each). So i knew they would demand a bit of 'juice'. When testing with a 'raw' video test both a mac g4 500mhz (os9 and osx) and a p3 600mhz (both win2k + win 98) worked fine with no performance problems playing from a cd. But my version with the final design was demanding quite alot more cpu to perform well. What i found out was that the pure presence of bitmap graphics with alpha information was decreasing the performance (demanding more cpu) - even though the bitmap wasn't moving or something was moving over or under it. I still couldn't optimize it fully to fit my 'raw' tests - but it put down the performance needs to a acceptable level. My minimum specs ended up at mac: g4 800mhz pc: p3 800mhz (both 64mb ram) I had other strange problems like sound issues with some pcs - some dell configurations with sound blaster live soundcards and a certain motherboards and cd-rom drive for some reason distorted the sound. (similar to the sound issues with flash 5 and soundblaster pci 64 and 128) but thing like this is out of your hands. But well with cd-rom productions there always are some odd hw configurations that just give problems (although in theory it shouldn't). Using director would just giver other issues (and make the production a lot more expensive due to the lack of cross platform projector exporting back then). Flash gave us the unique feature to distribute video cross platform without being dependent of 3rd party media players. All in all the cd-rom was a success and went into its 2 edition with a total of 70.000 units. Cheers, >B) Søren DESIGN // INTERACTIVITY // MOTION // VISUALS +34 667 812 329 (ES) // +45 3694 8614 (DK) www.RGBAZ.com // www.DESILENCE.net On 24/11/05 17:26, "Karina Steffens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
