At 3:49 PM +0300 9/3/00, George Panagiotakopoulos wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Iam doing a project on Heat engines. I have made 10 .dir files with 200-400
>frames per file.
>At every file there are about 5-7 sound members (wav format, 22050,16bit,
>mono) with narration approx 1MB every file. I made these files internal and
>every file begin with a puppetsound lingo code. At some wav files I use 1 or
>2 cue points.
>So every .dir file is about 10 MB large
>
>I plan to make a projector with a start.dir file and I keep the 10 .dir
>files external from the projector
>
>Because I don't have experience for the distribution of this project, I have
>two questions:
>
>a) Should I keep the sound files internal or should I keep them external and
>call them with a sound playfile command, in order to make the .dir files
>smaller?
If you are using Director 7, I would recommend that you link the sound
files into sound castmembers. This will enable Director to "stream" the
sound from disk during playback. Alternatively, you will be forcing
Director to load the entire sound member's data into RAM before beginning
playback. This will take a lot of RAM and put a delay into the start of
the sound playback.
If you are using Director 8, then you can either leave the sound files
external or import them completely. It will make little difference so long
as you use the new sound object features to play your sound. Instead of
calling puppetSound to get the sounds to play, you should use code like
this:
voSoundObject = (sound 3)
voSoundObject.setPlayList([ [ #member : (member "firstVO") ] ] )
voSoundObject.play()
>
>b) When a sound file ends releases the memory that had been used by it?
If you are using Director 7, the sound file's data is streamed in about 40K
chunks as I recall. That may have changed with D8.
In either case, the sound data should be released from RAM when you close
the movie containing the sound member _as long as_ you are not actively
playing the sound. I.e. as long as you are not playing the sound as you
call "go to movie" to jump to the next movie.
Regards,
Terry
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