Just saw this today on MXNA, http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/08/png-support-in-flash-player-8.html
the zlib and png support he means , are only for de-compression purposes, you can't use then for encoding .... right ? hehe On 8/22/05, David Rorex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would look into RLE (very simple and should be fast enough for > actionscript, only really helps for images that contain areas of the > same color. If every pixel's a different color, it's not gonna > compress) > > And possible LZSS (decompression is very fast, but compression can be slower) > > -David R > > On 8/21/05, Daniel Wabyick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It may very well be slow, but it would be interesting to still try. One > > factor to consider is that the bitmap sizes for most applications would > > be relatively small, and this would reduce the amount of info to deflate. > > > > That said - I would be open to other compression ideas, ideally ones > > that will be trivially simple for server applications to implement. > > > > One might think Adobe might know a thing or two about this subject. ;-) > > > > Max Herkender wrote: > > > > >Nah, png compression uses DEFLATE, basically (a form of) zip > > >compression. It'd be astonishingly slow in Actionscript. Simpler forms > > >of compression might work well if you enabled low quality before > > >getting the snapshot though... > > > > > >On 8/21/05, . m a r c o s a u g u s t o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Yup.. I made it using imagemagick and amfphp... > > >>You can expect around 500kb for a 150x150px image.... > > >>I was thinking about using some kind of LRE compression, and try to > > >>find patterns.. > > >>But PNG sound more interesting... > > >>Can it be done ? > > >> > > >> > > >>On 8/21/05, David Rorex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >>>On 8/21/05, Carl-Alexandre Malartre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>>Hi, > > >>>> > > >>>>I was wondering, can FP8 take screenshot of the user's activity and send > > >>>>them to the server? > > >>>> > > >>>>With the new pixel access, can FP8 send bitmap data to the server? > > >>>> > > >>>>This would be incredible for crash reporting. In one of our apps, we > > >>>>have a > > >>>>button where people can complain. Maybe it could attach a screenshot of > > >>>>the > > >>>>app at the same time. > > >>>> > > >>>>Thanks > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>You could take a 'screenshot', but ONLY of whats running inside your > > >>>particular instance of flash. > > >>> > > >>>The only problem is, there is no image compression routines built into > > >>>flash. Also there are issues with sending raw data to the server. So > > >>>the screen capture first of all would be pretty slow (you have to read > > >>>each pixel one at a time), and then the data to upload would be pretty > > >>>big (several megabytes...unless you implemented PNG compression in > > >>>actionscript or something) > > >>> > > >>>-David R > > >>> > > >>>_______________________________________________ > > >>>osflash mailing list > > >>>[email protected] > > >>>http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>-- > > >>. m a r c o s a u g u s t o ; > > >> > > >>_______________________________________________ > > >>osflash mailing list > > >>[email protected] > > >>http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >osflash mailing list > > >[email protected] > > >http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > -- . m a r c o s a u g u s t o ; _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
