> I'm working in dir7 on the mac side. My problem is: I have
> a projector
> that opens up shockwave movies. The shockwave movies are
> only 5 or 6 meg a
> piece in file size. My Projector is 9 meg. Only one
> shockwave movie is
> open at a time. When the shockwave movies open up, the user
> has a choice
> of what QT movies they want to see. While the QT movies are playing,
> however, I get a window that opens up and says "system out of
> memory, even
> while purging all purgeable members". Sometimes this happens without
> playing any videos, but just while the shockwave videos are
> loading. Any
> ideas as to why this is occurring? I've tested this out on
> macs with 32 mb
> of memory and those with 160 mb of memory...same issue!! Any
> help would be
> appreciated. Does the fact I'm using Dir 7.0 and not 7.02
> have anything to
> do with it? ARGH!
First up, why don't/won't/wouldn't you upgrade to 7.02? It's a ("free")
download from Macromedia. It has a number of known bug fixes. There is no
point even talking possible solutions until you've done this.
As I understand it, Shockwave files are compressed. For a Director projector
(or the SW plug-in, for that matter) to play them, it must first de-compress
said files. So your quoted 5 to 6 MB SW files is a little misleading. They
will bloat on decompression to who-knows-what. How big are the QT files? Is
there enough system memory left for the QT xtra to play the video for you?
How much memory have you allocated to the Mac projector? When you open
Director's "Memory Inspector" in the authoring environment, how much RAM
does it chew up when opening/navigating to the SW files. Are you using
play/play done commands to navigate around these SW files, or are you
opening them as MIAWs? Are you using any memory-management commands -
preload/unload.
Not very helpful I'm afraid. But perhaps some things to consider.
Regards,
Sean.
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