Thats definitely a possibility. It seems like keeping the audio and video synched would be tricky, but its worth a try.
thanks, Matt On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Gerry Beauregard <gerry.beaureg...@sonoport.com> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > You could probably put the 8 other languages into mp3 files, which you can > play back using the Sound class. Sound.play() has an optional startTime > argument, so you can start playback at any position in the mp3. > > Suppose the user is playing back the FLV in English, then switches to French. > In your code, you would mute the FLV's English audio soundtrack, get the > FLV's current playback position (which I assume is possible, though I've > never tried!), then call play on a Sound with the French sound track, with > startTime set to the FLV's current position. > > -Gerry > > On 2010-05-06 , at 21:30 , Matt S. wrote: > >> Is there a reliable way to have one video track, but then swap in >> audio tracks on the fly and have them sync properly? The client wants >> a 26 minute video which would be in English, but then also have 8 >> other language versions that would be dubbed, eg the audio would play >> over the video. We're trying to figure out if this can be done with a >> single video and multiple audio, or if it will need to be separate >> flv's. The reason for not just using different flv's is because the >> whole thing needs to fit on a CD-ROM so we're dealing with pretty >> significant size constraints if we want to fit it on one disc. And >> yes, before you point out that DVD's are exponentially larger than >> CD's, I know, but the discs will be sent to countries with much less >> reliability in terms of what kinds of drives they'll have and in all >> likelihood much higher percentages of users who are still running pc's >> with CD drives only, no DVD. I pushed for DVD, but lost. >> >> Anyhoo, any suggestions much appreciated. >> >> thanks, >> >> >> Matt >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
