Cordlandt,
Interesting. And thanks. I'll need to investigate.
(Thinking out loud here. . .) if the MP3 is transcoded to swf, who
does it? The flash runtime? (In other words, not the OpenLaszlo
Server). I guess it would have to be that way, or else flash apps
couldn't handle mp3's. . . hmmm. . .
Anyway, your example is very helpful. I appreciate your taking the
time to write it up.
jrs
On Nov 11, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Cortlandt Winters wrote:
Hi John,
I can take some guesses based on other swf experience, though I
haven't used
them yet, so they'd be worth testing.
If you attach a resource to a view it's probably compiled into the
swf,
making the initial swf size larger, but then if the swf is fully
loaded it
would be available to play instantaneously when needed.
If you stream the mp3 it should be easier on the memory, but timing
would be
less reliable as it has to buffer. For example, one problem with
flash video
streaming which we've almost certainly inherited here is that if
you had
two video clips on a server and you wanted to use two video views
to overlay
on top of one another so you could create a transition from one to the
other(creating a virtual video editor), you could monitor the first
video so
you know when to start the second but then if you were tell the
second video
to play while fading from one video view to another, the ammount of
time
before the second video were to play would depend on the buffer
amount and
bandwidth, not based on time, so you can't preload it and pause it
in order
to control the precise moment for the second video to start playing.
So you'd use the first for mouse clicks (and other very important
fancy
swooshy sound effects) where precise timing is important and you'd
use the
second for an mp3 or video player where the size of the file and
memory
efficiency becomes important.
HTH (and that it's correct)
On 11/9/06, John Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
A question about media and the difference between <view> and
<videoview>:
You can attach .mp3's as resources to <view>s
You can stream .mp3's over <mediastream>s to <videoview>s.
What's the difference? Why would I choose one technique over the
other?
Thanks,
jrs
