It's late, and I may not be thinking clearly, but it seems to me that
the effect on server load and bandwidth is going to be the same
whether those 200 learners download the whole swf in one go or they
download it as they work their way through the course (well, I guess
if they're going to revisit and replay the course, then it DOES save
bandwidth for them to download once and play back locally, but not if
the assets are cached).
The critical thing for keeping the size down is managing the asset
sizes, particularly bitmaps, audio, and video. And I would be frank
with the client, and give them examples of those assets compressed to
different levels, so they can see what the trade-offs are -- either
they compress things more (poorer quality), or use fewer assets, or
stretch out the timeline so less bandwidth is used. The options are
limited, and the reality may be that the client is not equipped to
deliver to as many learners as anticipated, and may have to bite the
bullet and pay for more server bandwidth.
Marc Hoffman
At 12:26 AM 10/5/2006, you wrote:
Hi Jason,
That was the initial understanding with which I entered the project, now
they don't want to do that because of the server load and bandwidth if 200
learners access the course simultaneously...
They want the learner to download the course in one go (a smaller swf
hopefully), and then work through it at their own speed.
Any ideas??
Thanks
Don
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Jason
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Keep all images external and just reference them in the XML. Then your .swf
is 50k or less, not 6MB.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
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>>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:39 PM
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>>Subject: [Flashcoders] Creating a SWF to dynamically create SWF';s
>>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>My client has asked me to create a SWF that reads in some XML and
generates
>>a course depending on the amount of questions images etc. in the XML.
>>They found out today that the XML with all the images comes to about
6MB -
>>so suddenly frightened by the implications of this, they've asked me
if I
>>can develop a SWF, that when run, will generate the same content, but
then
>>save the resultant SWF to a file, with all images, sound and questions
>>embedded in the new SWF - and then score back to the shell application
as
>>well...
>>
>>Is this even possible??
>>
>>.NET is NOT an option...
>>
>>Thanks...
>>
>>Don
>>
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