Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question
Very interesting. Thank you. Karl Sent from losPhone On Apr 19, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.ca wrote: It just popped into my head that that we did not give you every option. I figured, that although following the tips to increase the frame rate is a good idea, you could have an fps counter in your code try to maintain at a solid 24 fps lapse time; yet, if it dips lower or goes higher, you could redraw less or more, respectively, of the frames as long as you know the position your objects are supposed to be in at a given time. In your case your animations are on the timeline, so you could tell it to skip to a frame; as well, I know there used to be a trick about putting a blank sound file on the time line and when I googled it, this is all I came up with: You may need to put a fake *sound* (*blank*, silent mp3 *file*) of the same duration as your video on the *timeline* with your animated mask to get it to play in sync. Create an mp3 *file* of the proper duration or longer (it won't matter if it's longer as long as you don't loop your animation) and save it to as small a *file* as you can (you will need to keep it at 44.1kHz sample *rate*, but you can make it 2-4 or 8 bit mono depending on your audio app's abilities). Place this *file* in your library and then create a *blank* layer and in the properties panel for that layer, select the mp3 *file* and set it to stream rather than event This will force your *timeline* animation to keep up with the audio *file* at the frame rate of your movie. Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Perfect thank you... Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 1, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: http://library.forum.nokia.com/index.jsp?topic=/Flash_Lite_Developers_Library/GUID-8EFDF519-AB3B-4FAC-804B-8FDFD08F9968.html Most of it should apply Some basic keys are: * reduce the use of filters * reduce the detail of your bitmaps * try not to rotate objects with filters on them * reduce the amount of objects you have on the stage being animated at once * reduce the use of alpha effects * reuse objects where possible instead of making new one, as each object needs to be stored in memory ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question
It just popped into my head that that we did not give you every option. I figured, that although following the tips to increase the frame rate is a good idea, you could have an fps counter in your code try to maintain at a solid 24 fps lapse time; yet, if it dips lower or goes higher, you could redraw less or more, respectively, of the frames as long as you know the position your objects are supposed to be in at a given time. In your case your animations are on the timeline, so you could tell it to skip to a frame; as well, I know there used to be a trick about putting a blank sound file on the time line and when I googled it, this is all I came up with: You may need to put a fake *sound* (*blank*, silent mp3 *file*) of the same duration as your video on the *timeline* with your animated mask to get it to play in sync. Create an mp3 *file* of the proper duration or longer (it won't matter if it's longer as long as you don't loop your animation) and save it to as small a *file* as you can (you will need to keep it at 44.1kHz sample *rate*, but you can make it 2-4 or 8 bit mono depending on your audio app's abilities). Place this *file* in your library and then create a *blank* layer and in the properties panel for that layer, select the mp3 *file* and set it to stream rather than event This will force your *timeline* animation to keep up with the audio *file* at the frame rate of your movie. Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Perfect thank you... Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 1, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: http://library.forum.nokia.com/index.jsp?topic=/Flash_Lite_Developers_Library/GUID-8EFDF519-AB3B-4FAC-804B-8FDFD08F9968.html Most of it should apply Some basic keys are: * reduce the use of filters * reduce the detail of your bitmaps * try not to rotate objects with filters on them * reduce the amount of objects you have on the stage being animated at once * reduce the use of alpha effects * reuse objects where possible instead of making new one, as each object needs to be stored in memory ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question
Also = try to redraw as little of the screen as possible from frame to frame. If your entire screen is constantly redrawing, that takes a lot of processing power. So alpha fades that affect the entire screen or moving/animating a sprite which covers the entire screen are problems. The Flash Debug Player has a right-click context menu option called something like Show Redraw Areas (I forget). HTH, Ian P.S. There's a bug in FP9+ - possibly still in 10, I can't remember. Calling setChildIndex() forces the entire display to be redrawn. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Perfect thank you... Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question
Hi Karl, The only way to make 30fps play consistently on a lower bandwidth connection, would be to send a message to the server, telling it to send the stream at a reduced quality; thus, the size and quality of each frame would be greatly reduced on a slow connection. Yet, if a pause is acceptable, creating a buffer for the content and playing the buffered content, while waiting for new content to download and be placed in the buffer for later playing, would be an option. Your suggestion, sounds like it would result in you playing the stream in slow motion. Another idea would be to tell the server to reduce the amount, or drop, the frames sent; yet, this would not be 30fps, as the fps would drop based on the users connection. E.G. if 30 fps plays well on 300KB downstream, but the user can only download solidly at 100KB, you could only send approximately 1/3 (maybe less to be safe) of the frames safely allocated for that second while ensuring no delays in matching frames to audio; therefore, frames 1..4..7..10..13..16..19..22..25..28.. would be sent per second out of the regular 30fps. (I hope I am not missing something and sounding stupid here) This is really just theory, and is easier to say than to put into practise; yet, it is not so difficult to figure out, that you couldn't pull it off if you were somewhat decent with a server side language like php and know how to manipulate files by searching for index of frame identifying start and end keys in the hex to flush out as video stream. When I say it sounds so easy; yet, making it stable enough not to crash a server with multiple simultaneous connections might be something different. Now that I think of it, can php even handle this? or would a c module be needed to make things run totally stable? I know this won't really help other than to see why your logic is off, and maybe give you some ideas of how video is really transfered; yet, I hope you can make use of it. I have worked a little, very little, with video in the past; thus, I am not an expert, so if anyone has any ideas that would make my statements look stupid, I hope he or she will speak up. Thanks, Anthony Pace Paul Andrews wrote: How would you equate bandwidth with FPS? Seems to me that a loading Movie will need to load different assets at different times, so You may need 100K loaded at one frame followed by no new assets until 200 frames later when 150K needs to be loaded for a particular frame. How can you possibly balance the load? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Close. I am trying to basically see if I can control how fast my movie plays according to the type of stream it is receiving. If slow on bandwidth play faster, if normal or high bandwidth play at normal fps. So that when their is low bandwidth while loading page, the user never knows or sees it. No lag if you will. Sent from losPhone On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: I'm pretty confused by your requested, so I've probably got this wrong. You're trying to slow down a playing movie because it's not streaming it's content fast enough to play at the true frame rate? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Sorry I guess I was not clear on my first post, but I am looking to find out how to ready how much stream I am getting and adjust my frame rate of the movie (swf) accordingly. Main part of my question is to figure out how to get the stream info so to be able to adjust the FPS to it. Better?? Thanks for any input. Anthony, thanks for the FPS link, that will come in handy. BTW I am still coding in AS2 for this project. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 31, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: Sorry I didn't respond earlier... passed out last night and just woke up. http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/AS3-Dynamically-Change- The- Frame-Rate-09765.html Should help you out. Karl DeSaulniers wrote: in this i mean movie = swf . i am not necessarily asking about just a moviclip but the whole movie. Hope that clarifies. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 30, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: First you say swf, and yes, controlling the frame rate for an swf is doable; yet, then you say movie... do you mean movie clip, or stream? Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Ok here is a new one. Is there a way to control the way your swf plays according to the bandwidth it's getting? For eg: control how fast FPS your movie plays according to the stream of info it's getting from the server
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question
Anthony, I am going to have to buy you a steak dinner for all the input you have given me. (unless your vegetarian, then make it a shiitake steak) Your input is right on the money. ;) You basically have said what I was trying to, but my lack of terminology and experience made it sound like some unfathomable procedure. The only thing is your getting it backwards on how my movie was going to play. Oh and I am talking about a Flash swf movie (not video necessarily). The theory about sending some sort of packets to the server and bouncing back what an how to play the swf is what this is really about now that I have read your reply. Thanks. My theory was to set up a code to read the stream of data coming in to the browser, interp. it, talk to the swf and play the swf faster (skipping frames as you suggested) if the connection was slow and playing at regular frame rate when the stream was good. Never playing slow. That is exactly what I am trying to defeat. The skipping of frames or increase in fps, which may produce the same, was to give the effect that nothing had happened when presented with a slow connection. But, I see what you are saying with combining with a server language to implement it. Maybe coldfusion? I don't think that PHP could handle that, but, I know PEARL could. But I would like to see a flash server engine sometime in the near future. Something that launched and controlled your own applications for your website and/or a built in flash database.. hello Adobe!!! I wouldn't even mind a component for that... :P Thanks again, I think your suggestion has put me on the right path.. once again. :) Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 1, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Anthony Pace wrote: Hi Karl, The only way to make 30fps play consistently on a lower bandwidth connection, would be to send a message to the server, telling it to send the stream at a reduced quality; thus, the size and quality of each frame would be greatly reduced on a slow connection. Yet, if a pause is acceptable, creating a buffer for the content and playing the buffered content, while waiting for new content to download and be placed in the buffer for later playing, would be an option. Your suggestion, sounds like it would result in you playing the stream in slow motion. Another idea would be to tell the server to reduce the amount, or drop, the frames sent; yet, this would not be 30fps, as the fps would drop based on the users connection. E.G. if 30 fps plays well on 300KB downstream, but the user can only download solidly at 100KB, you could only send approximately 1/3 (maybe less to be safe) of the frames safely allocated for that second while ensuring no delays in matching frames to audio; therefore, frames 1..4..7..10..13..16..19..22..25..28.. would be sent per second out of the regular 30fps. (I hope I am not missing something and sounding stupid here) This is really just theory, and is easier to say than to put into practise; yet, it is not so difficult to figure out, that you couldn't pull it off if you were somewhat decent with a server side language like php and know how to manipulate files by searching for index of frame identifying start and end keys in the hex to flush out as video stream. When I say it sounds so easy; yet, making it stable enough not to crash a server with multiple simultaneous connections might be something different. Now that I think of it, can php even handle this? or would a c module be needed to make things run totally stable? I know this won't really help other than to see why your logic is off, and maybe give you some ideas of how video is really transfered; yet, I hope you can make use of it. I have worked a little, very little, with video in the past; thus, I am not an expert, so if anyone has any ideas that would make my statements look stupid, I hope he or she will speak up. Thanks, Anthony Pace Paul Andrews wrote: How would you equate bandwidth with FPS? Seems to me that a loading Movie will need to load different assets at different times, so You may need 100K loaded at one frame followed by no new assets until 200 frames later when 150K needs to be loaded for a particular frame. How can you possibly balance the load? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Close. I am trying to basically see if I can control how fast my movie plays according to the type of stream it is receiving. If slow on bandwidth play faster, if normal or high bandwidth play at normal fps. So that when their is low bandwidth while loading page, the user never knows or sees it. No lag if you will. Sent from losPhone On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question
Karl, Despite what has been suggested, this will still only have a chance of working work for some flash Movies written in a certain way. Many of my flash movies are only one frame, sometimes just a handful of frames, so your attempt to smoothly run a high-bandwidth movie on a slow connection would fail for movies like mine - either because they load a lot of assets at a particular frame, or because they load assets via code during the movie. Either or both of these scenarios would default your mechanism. Maybe I have missed this somewhere - is a pre-loader out of the question? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Anthony, I am going to have to buy you a steak dinner for all the input you have given me. (unless your vegetarian, then make it a shiitake steak) Your input is right on the money. ;) You basically have said what I was trying to, but my lack of terminology and experience made it sound like some unfathomable procedure. The only thing is your getting it backwards on how my movie was going to play. Oh and I am talking about a Flash swf movie (not video necessarily). The theory about sending some sort of packets to the server and bouncing back what an how to play the swf is what this is really about now that I have read your reply. Thanks. My theory was to set up a code to read the stream of data coming in to the browser, interp. it, talk to the swf and play the swf faster (skipping frames as you suggested) if the connection was slow and playing at regular frame rate when the stream was good. Never playing slow. That is exactly what I am trying to defeat. The skipping of frames or increase in fps, which may produce the same, was to give the effect that nothing had happened when presented with a slow connection. But, I see what you are saying with combining with a server language to implement it. Maybe coldfusion? I don't think that PHP could handle that, but, I know PEARL could. But I would like to see a flash server engine sometime in the near future. Something that launched and controlled your own applications for your website and/or a built in flash database.. hello Adobe!!! I wouldn't even mind a component for that... :P Thanks again, I think your suggestion has put me on the right path.. once again. :) Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 1, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Anthony Pace wrote: Hi Karl, The only way to make 30fps play consistently on a lower bandwidth connection, would be to send a message to the server, telling it to send the stream at a reduced quality; thus, the size and quality of each frame would be greatly reduced on a slow connection. Yet, if a pause is acceptable, creating a buffer for the content and playing the buffered content, while waiting for new content to download and be placed in the buffer for later playing, would be an option. Your suggestion, sounds like it would result in you playing the stream in slow motion. Another idea would be to tell the server to reduce the amount, or drop, the frames sent; yet, this would not be 30fps, as the fps would drop based on the users connection. E.G. if 30 fps plays well on 300KB downstream, but the user can only download solidly at 100KB, you could only send approximately 1/3 (maybe less to be safe) of the frames safely allocated for that second while ensuring no delays in matching frames to audio; therefore, frames 1..4..7..10..13..16..19..22..25..28.. would be sent per second out of the regular 30fps. (I hope I am not missing something and sounding stupid here) This is really just theory, and is easier to say than to put into practise; yet, it is not so difficult to figure out, that you couldn't pull it off if you were somewhat decent with a server side language like php and know how to manipulate files by searching for index of frame identifying start and end keys in the hex to flush out as video stream. When I say it sounds so easy; yet, making it stable enough not to crash a server with multiple simultaneous connections might be something different. Now that I think of it, can php even handle this? or would a c module be needed to make things run totally stable? I know this won't really help other than to see why your logic is off, and maybe give you some ideas of how video is really transfered; yet, I hope you can make use of it. I have worked a little, very little, with video in the past; thus, I am not an expert, so if anyone has any ideas that would make my statements look stupid, I hope he or she will speak up. Thanks, Anthony Pace Paul Andrews wrote: How would you equate bandwidth with FPS? Seems to me that a loading Movie will need to load different assets at different times, so You may need
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question
default your mechanism? LOL defeat your mechanism? Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Karl, Despite what has been suggested, this will still only have a chance of working work for some flash Movies written in a certain way. Many of my flash movies are only one frame, sometimes just a handful of frames, so your attempt to smoothly run a high-bandwidth movie on a slow connection would fail for movies like mine - either because they load a lot of assets at a particular frame, or because they load assets via code during the movie. Either or both of these scenarios would default your mechanism. Maybe I have missed this somewhere - is a pre-loader out of the question? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Anthony, I am going to have to buy you a steak dinner for all the input you have given me. (unless your vegetarian, then make it a shiitake steak) Your input is right on the money. ;) You basically have said what I was trying to, but my lack of terminology and experience made it sound like some unfathomable procedure. The only thing is your getting it backwards on how my movie was going to play. Oh and I am talking about a Flash swf movie (not video necessarily). The theory about sending some sort of packets to the server and bouncing back what an how to play the swf is what this is really about now that I have read your reply. Thanks. My theory was to set up a code to read the stream of data coming in to the browser, interp. it, talk to the swf and play the swf faster (skipping frames as you suggested) if the connection was slow and playing at regular frame rate when the stream was good. Never playing slow. That is exactly what I am trying to defeat. The skipping of frames or increase in fps, which may produce the same, was to give the effect that nothing had happened when presented with a slow connection. But, I see what you are saying with combining with a server language to implement it. Maybe coldfusion? I don't think that PHP could handle that, but, I know PEARL could. But I would like to see a flash server engine sometime in the near future. Something that launched and controlled your own applications for your website and/or a built in flash database.. hello Adobe!!! I wouldn't even mind a component for that... :P Thanks again, I think your suggestion has put me on the right path.. once again. :) Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 1, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Anthony Pace wrote: Hi Karl, The only way to make 30fps play consistently on a lower bandwidth connection, would be to send a message to the server, telling it to send the stream at a reduced quality; thus, the size and quality of each frame would be greatly reduced on a slow connection. Yet, if a pause is acceptable, creating a buffer for the content and playing the buffered content, while waiting for new content to download and be placed in the buffer for later playing, would be an option. Your suggestion, sounds like it would result in you playing the stream in slow motion. Another idea would be to tell the server to reduce the amount, or drop, the frames sent; yet, this would not be 30fps, as the fps would drop based on the users connection. E.G. if 30 fps plays well on 300KB downstream, but the user can only download solidly at 100KB, you could only send approximately 1/3 (maybe less to be safe) of the frames safely allocated for that second while ensuring no delays in matching frames to audio; therefore, frames 1..4..7..10..13..16..19..22..25..28.. would be sent per second out of the regular 30fps. (I hope I am not missing something and sounding stupid here) This is really just theory, and is easier to say than to put into practise; yet, it is not so difficult to figure out, that you couldn't pull it off if you were somewhat decent with a server side language like php and know how to manipulate files by searching for index of frame identifying start and end keys in the hex to flush out as video stream. When I say it sounds so easy; yet, making it stable enough not to crash a server with multiple simultaneous connections might be something different. Now that I think of it, can php even handle this? or would a c module be needed to make things run totally stable? I know this won't really help other than to see why your logic is off, and maybe give you some ideas of how video is really transfered; yet, I hope you can make use of it. I have worked a little, very little, with video in the past; thus, I am not an expert, so if anyone has any ideas
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question
I believe the standard way of handling this is to have three different versions of your movie. low, normal and high quality (how you down the file size is totally dependent on you, could be dropping frames, could be lower rez, whatever). Which one gets loaded in can be determined by connection speed, I think this is pretty much the norm way of doing it, and while Anthony's solution is good in theory, I think it would be too much of a pain in the ars, not to mention a butt load of server-side processing every time a user loads your site. - Taka On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: default your mechanism? LOL defeat your mechanism? Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Karl, Despite what has been suggested, this will still only have a chance of working work for some flash Movies written in a certain way. Many of my flash movies are only one frame, sometimes just a handful of frames, so your attempt to smoothly run a high-bandwidth movie on a slow connection would fail for movies like mine - either because they load a lot of assets at a particular frame, or because they load assets via code during the movie. Either or both of these scenarios would default your mechanism. Maybe I have missed this somewhere - is a pre-loader out of the question? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Anthony, I am going to have to buy you a steak dinner for all the input you have given me. (unless your vegetarian, then make it a shiitake steak) Your input is right on the money. ;) You basically have said what I was trying to, but my lack of terminology and experience made it sound like some unfathomable procedure. The only thing is your getting it backwards on how my movie was going to play. Oh and I am talking about a Flash swf movie (not video necessarily). The theory about sending some sort of packets to the server and bouncing back what an how to play the swf is what this is really about now that I have read your reply. Thanks. My theory was to set up a code to read the stream of data coming in to the browser, interp. it, talk to the swf and play the swf faster (skipping frames as you suggested) if the connection was slow and playing at regular frame rate when the stream was good. Never playing slow. That is exactly what I am trying to defeat. The skipping of frames or increase in fps, which may produce the same, was to give the effect that nothing had happened when presented with a slow connection. But, I see what you are saying with combining with a server language to implement it. Maybe coldfusion? I don't think that PHP could handle that, but, I know PEARL could. But I would like to see a flash server engine sometime in the near future. Something that launched and controlled your own applications for your website and/or a built in flash database.. hello Adobe!!! I wouldn't even mind a component for that... :P Thanks again, I think your suggestion has put me on the right path.. once again. :) Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 1, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Anthony Pace wrote: Hi Karl, The only way to make 30fps play consistently on a lower bandwidth connection, would be to send a message to the server, telling it to send the stream at a reduced quality; thus, the size and quality of each frame would be greatly reduced on a slow connection. Yet, if a pause is acceptable, creating a buffer for the content and playing the buffered content, while waiting for new content to download and be placed in the buffer for later playing, would be an option. Your suggestion, sounds like it would result in you playing the stream in slow motion. Another idea would be to tell the server to reduce the amount, or drop, the frames sent; yet, this would not be 30fps, as the fps would drop based on the users connection. E.G. if 30 fps plays well on 300KB downstream, but the user can only download solidly at 100KB, you could only send approximately 1/3 (maybe less to be safe) of the frames safely allocated for that second while ensuring no delays in matching frames to audio; therefore, frames 1..4..7..10..13..16..19..22..25..28.. would be sent per second out of the regular 30fps. (I hope I am not missing something and sounding stupid here) This is really just theory, and is easier to say than to put into practise; yet, it is not so difficult to figure out, that you couldn't pull it off if you were somewhat decent with a server side language like php and know how to manipulate files by searching for index of frame
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Hi Paul, I agree. I suggested my methods with regard to movie downloading. Doing what Karl wants with an swf would mean that you would have the capability to isolate frames of the swf server side before sending, and I don't know enough about the swf file structure and how it is read by the player to say if its even possible. Anybody know something I don't about this, which wouldn't be hard, please tell me. Thanks, Anthony Pace Paul Andrews wrote: Karl, Despite what has been suggested, this will still only have a chance of working work for some flash Movies written in a certain way. Many of my flash movies are only one frame, sometimes just a handful of frames, so your attempt to smoothly run a high-bandwidth movie on a slow connection would fail for movies like mine - either because they load a lot of assets at a particular frame, or because they load assets via code during the movie. Either or both of these scenarios would default your mechanism. Maybe I have missed this somewhere - is a pre-loader out of the question? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Anthony, I am going to have to buy you a steak dinner for all the input you have given me. (unless your vegetarian, then make it a shiitake steak) Your input is right on the money. ;) You basically have said what I was trying to, but my lack of terminology and experience made it sound like some unfathomable procedure. The only thing is your getting it backwards on how my movie was going to play. Oh and I am talking about a Flash swf movie (not video necessarily). The theory about sending some sort of packets to the server and bouncing back what an how to play the swf is what this is really about now that I have read your reply. Thanks. My theory was to set up a code to read the stream of data coming in to the browser, interp. it, talk to the swf and play the swf faster (skipping frames as you suggested) if the connection was slow and playing at regular frame rate when the stream was good. Never playing slow. That is exactly what I am trying to defeat. The skipping of frames or increase in fps, which may produce the same, was to give the effect that nothing had happened when presented with a slow connection. But, I see what you are saying with combining with a server language to implement it. Maybe coldfusion? I don't think that PHP could handle that, but, I know PEARL could. But I would like to see a flash server engine sometime in the near future. Something that launched and controlled your own applications for your website and/or a built in flash database.. hello Adobe!!! I wouldn't even mind a component for that... :P Thanks again, I think your suggestion has put me on the right path.. once again. :) Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 1, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Anthony Pace wrote: Hi Karl, The only way to make 30fps play consistently on a lower bandwidth connection, would be to send a message to the server, telling it to send the stream at a reduced quality; thus, the size and quality of each frame would be greatly reduced on a slow connection. Yet, if a pause is acceptable, creating a buffer for the content and playing the buffered content, while waiting for new content to download and be placed in the buffer for later playing, would be an option. Your suggestion, sounds like it would result in you playing the stream in slow motion. Another idea would be to tell the server to reduce the amount, or drop, the frames sent; yet, this would not be 30fps, as the fps would drop based on the users connection. E.G. if 30 fps plays well on 300KB downstream, but the user can only download solidly at 100KB, you could only send approximately 1/3 (maybe less to be safe) of the frames safely allocated for that second while ensuring no delays in matching frames to audio; therefore, frames 1..4..7..10..13..16..19..22..25..28.. would be sent per second out of the regular 30fps. (I hope I am not missing something and sounding stupid here) This is really just theory, and is easier to say than to put into practise; yet, it is not so difficult to figure out, that you couldn't pull it off if you were somewhat decent with a server side language like php and know how to manipulate files by searching for index of frame identifying start and end keys in the hex to flush out as video stream. When I say it sounds so easy; yet, making it stable enough not to crash a server with multiple simultaneous connections might be something different. Now that I think of it, can php even handle this? or would a c module be needed to make things run totally stable? I know this won't really help other than to see why your logic is off, and maybe give you
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Hello Taka, I agree with you; as well, with regard to the swf, it would take a ton of in depth knowledge and understanding about its file structure, and how it handles tweens, that I don't have right now, in order for me to say if its even possible. Thanks. Anthony Pace Taka Kojima wrote: I believe the standard way of handling this is to have three different versions of your movie. low, normal and high quality (how you down the file size is totally dependent on you, could be dropping frames, could be lower rez, whatever). Which one gets loaded in can be determined by connection speed, I think this is pretty much the norm way of doing it, and while Anthony's solution is good in theory, I think it would be too much of a pain in the ars, not to mention a butt load of server-side processing every time a user loads your site. - Taka On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: default your mechanism? LOL defeat your mechanism? Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Karl, Despite what has been suggested, this will still only have a chance of working work for some flash Movies written in a certain way. Many of my flash movies are only one frame, sometimes just a handful of frames, so your attempt to smoothly run a high-bandwidth movie on a slow connection would fail for movies like mine - either because they load a lot of assets at a particular frame, or because they load assets via code during the movie. Either or both of these scenarios would default your mechanism. Maybe I have missed this somewhere - is a pre-loader out of the question? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Anthony, I am going to have to buy you a steak dinner for all the input you have given me. (unless your vegetarian, then make it a shiitake steak) Your input is right on the money. ;) You basically have said what I was trying to, but my lack of terminology and experience made it sound like some unfathomable procedure. The only thing is your getting it backwards on how my movie was going to play. Oh and I am talking about a Flash swf movie (not video necessarily). The theory about sending some sort of packets to the server and bouncing back what an how to play the swf is what this is really about now that I have read your reply. Thanks. My theory was to set up a code to read the stream of data coming in to the browser, interp. it, talk to the swf and play the swf faster (skipping frames as you suggested) if the connection was slow and playing at regular frame rate when the stream was good. Never playing slow. That is exactly what I am trying to defeat. The skipping of frames or increase in fps, which may produce the same, was to give the effect that nothing had happened when presented with a slow connection. But, I see what you are saying with combining with a server language to implement it. Maybe coldfusion? I don't think that PHP could handle that, but, I know PEARL could. But I would like to see a flash server engine sometime in the near future. Something that launched and controlled your own applications for your website and/or a built in flash database.. hello Adobe!!! I wouldn't even mind a component for that... :P Thanks again, I think your suggestion has put me on the right path.. once again. :) Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 1, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Anthony Pace wrote: Hi Karl, The only way to make 30fps play consistently on a lower bandwidth connection, would be to send a message to the server, telling it to send the stream at a reduced quality; thus, the size and quality of each frame would be greatly reduced on a slow connection. Yet, if a pause is acceptable, creating a buffer for the content and playing the buffered content, while waiting for new content to download and be placed in the buffer for later playing, would be an option. Your suggestion, sounds like it would result in you playing the stream in slow motion. Another idea would be to tell the server to reduce the amount, or drop, the frames sent; yet, this would not be 30fps, as the fps would drop based on the users connection. E.G. if 30 fps plays well on 300KB downstream, but the user can only download solidly at 100KB, you could only send approximately 1/3 (maybe less to be safe) of the frames safely allocated for that second while ensuring no delays in matching frames to audio; therefore, frames 1..4..7..10..13..16..19..22..25..28.. would be sent per second out of the regular 30fps. (I hope I am not missing something and sounding stupid here) This is really just theory, and is easier
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Back to the original issue at hand. I think that is is definitely not optimal to be relying upon somebody's connection speed/bandwidth to determine fps and/or how to display content. I believe that's why people use preloaders. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hello Taka, I agree with you; as well, with regard to the swf, it would take a ton of in depth knowledge and understanding about its file structure, and how it handles tweens, that I don't have right now, in order for me to say if its even possible. Thanks. Anthony Pace Taka Kojima wrote: I believe the standard way of handling this is to have three different versions of your movie. low, normal and high quality (how you down the file size is totally dependent on you, could be dropping frames, could be lower rez, whatever). Which one gets loaded in can be determined by connection speed, I think this is pretty much the norm way of doing it, and while Anthony's solution is good in theory, I think it would be too much of a pain in the ars, not to mention a butt load of server-side processing every time a user loads your site. - Taka On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: default your mechanism? LOL defeat your mechanism? Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Karl, Despite what has been suggested, this will still only have a chance of working work for some flash Movies written in a certain way. Many of my flash movies are only one frame, sometimes just a handful of frames, so your attempt to smoothly run a high-bandwidth movie on a slow connection would fail for movies like mine - either because they load a lot of assets at a particular frame, or because they load assets via code during the movie. Either or both of these scenarios would default your mechanism. Maybe I have missed this somewhere - is a pre-loader out of the question? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Anthony, I am going to have to buy you a steak dinner for all the input you have given me. (unless your vegetarian, then make it a shiitake steak) Your input is right on the money. ;) You basically have said what I was trying to, but my lack of terminology and experience made it sound like some unfathomable procedure. The only thing is your getting it backwards on how my movie was going to play. Oh and I am talking about a Flash swf movie (not video necessarily). The theory about sending some sort of packets to the server and bouncing back what an how to play the swf is what this is really about now that I have read your reply. Thanks. My theory was to set up a code to read the stream of data coming in to the browser, interp. it, talk to the swf and play the swf faster (skipping frames as you suggested) if the connection was slow and playing at regular frame rate when the stream was good. Never playing slow. That is exactly what I am trying to defeat. The skipping of frames or increase in fps, which may produce the same, was to give the effect that nothing had happened when presented with a slow connection. But, I see what you are saying with combining with a server language to implement it. Maybe coldfusion? I don't think that PHP could handle that, but, I know PEARL could. But I would like to see a flash server engine sometime in the near future. Something that launched and controlled your own applications for your website and/or a built in flash database.. hello Adobe!!! I wouldn't even mind a component for that... :P Thanks again, I think your suggestion has put me on the right path.. once again. :) Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 1, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Anthony Pace wrote: Hi Karl, The only way to make 30fps play consistently on a lower bandwidth connection, would be to send a message to the server, telling it to send the stream at a reduced quality; thus, the size and quality of each frame would be greatly reduced on a slow connection. Yet, if a pause is acceptable, creating a buffer for the content and playing the buffered content, while waiting for new content to download and be placed in the buffer for later playing, would be an option. Your suggestion, sounds like it would result in you playing the stream in slow motion. Another idea would be to tell the server to reduce the amount, or drop, the frames sent; yet, this would not be 30fps, as the fps would drop based on the users connection. E.G. if 30 fps plays well on 300KB downstream, but the user can only download solidly
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Yes you are correct about the preliaders and the different versions of sites per connection speed. Here is what I am experiencing and why I am lookijng for this solution. I have a preloader on my site and it preloads fine. But even with the preload I still get a lag when it starts playing. There is no way I am building three sites every time I make a site. So I wanted to have a streaming script watch the stream and adjust accordingly so that there would be no lag. I have been to many flash site that load significantly faster than mine and they have more in them. Alas too a lot of my animations are animations and not tween animations. I am not the best coder (as you can tell) so I am relying on animation to suffice. This is not the best practice I know, but bills need to be paid and I have no time to go back to school. I am self taught and so the industry standards on how to do this, I have not been introduced to. I don't mean to sound like the biggest idiot, but in AS I guess I am. Thanks for your input on this. Everything helps. Sent from losPhone On Apr 1, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com wrote: Back to the original issue at hand. I think that is is definitely not optimal to be relying upon somebody's connection speed/bandwidth to determine fps and/or how to display content. I believe that's why people use preloaders. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hello Taka, I agree with you; as well, with regard to the swf, it would take a ton of in depth knowledge and understanding about its file structure, and how it handles tweens, that I don't have right now, in order for me to say if its even possible. Thanks. Anthony Pace Taka Kojima wrote: I believe the standard way of handling this is to have three different versions of your movie. low, normal and high quality (how you down the file size is totally dependent on you, could be dropping frames, could be lower rez, whatever). Which one gets loaded in can be determined by connection speed, I think this is pretty much the norm way of doing it, and while Anthony's solution is good in theory, I think it would be too much of a pain in the ars, not to mention a butt load of server-side processing every time a user loads your site. - Taka On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: default your mechanism? LOL defeat your mechanism? Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Karl, Despite what has been suggested, this will still only have a chance of working work for some flash Movies written in a certain way. Many of my flash movies are only one frame, sometimes just a handful of frames, so your attempt to smoothly run a high-bandwidth movie on a slow connection would fail for movies like mine - either because they load a lot of assets at a particular frame, or because they load assets via code during the movie. Either or both of these scenarios would default your mechanism. Maybe I have missed this somewhere - is a pre-loader out of the question? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Anthony, I am going to have to buy you a steak dinner for all the input you have given me. (unless your vegetarian, then make it a shiitake steak) Your input is right on the money. ;) You basically have said what I was trying to, but my lack of terminology and experience made it sound like some unfathomable procedure. The only thing is your getting it backwards on how my movie was going to play. Oh and I am talking about a Flash swf movie (not video necessarily). The theory about sending some sort of packets to the server and bouncing back what an how to play the swf is what this is really about now that I have read your reply. Thanks. My theory was to set up a code to read the stream of data coming in to the browser, interp. it, talk to the swf and play the swf faster (skipping frames as you suggested) if the connection was slow and playing at regular frame rate when the stream was good. Never playing slow. That is exactly what I am trying to defeat. The skipping of frames or increase in fps, which may produce the same, was to give the effect that nothing had happened when presented with a slow connection. But, I see what you are saying with combining with a server language to implement it. Maybe coldfusion? I don't think that PHP could handle that, but, I know PEARL could. But I would like to see a flash server engine sometime in the near future. Something that launched and controlled your own applications for your
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Alright, well my two cents is that the problem isn't what you think it is, and here's why: I build a lot of sites and the reason it's chugging is not anything to do with streaming... if you truly do have a preloader, and it does load in 100% before playing, it's not a streaming issue. It seems to be a CPU issue. If the computers with slower connections you are testing on are older computers (which for some reason is usually the case) then it may seem like it's the connection speed, where in fact it is the CPU chugging. The idea that animating on the timeline is x amount slower than doing it through code is a myth that's not true. It is true that you can optimize some thing through code, but unless you're doing some crazy animation stuff then that's likely not the issue either. The proper solution: bring down the cpu usage, which isn't an exact science you'll just have to futz around with things and use common sense, such as using blank keyframes when things are off the stage, making sure you aren't animating a lot of vectors (and if you are use bitmap caching), etc. - Taka On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Please excuse the auto correction of my email client. It doesn't always know what I am trying to say. :p That's preloaders not preliaders Sent from losPhone On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Yes you are correct about the preliaders and the different versions of sites per connection speed. Here is what I am experiencing and why I am lookijng for this solution. I have a preloader on my site and it preloads fine. But even with the preload I still get a lag when it starts playing. There is no way I am building three sites every time I make a site. So I wanted to have a streaming script watch the stream and adjust accordingly so that there would be no lag. I have been to many flash site that load significantly faster than mine and they have more in them. Alas too a lot of my animations are animations and not tween animations. I am not the best coder (as you can tell) so I am relying on animation to suffice. This is not the best practice I know, but bills need to be paid and I have no time to go back to school. I am self taught and so the industry standards on how to do this, I have not been introduced to. I don't mean to sound like the biggest idiot, but in AS I guess I am. Thanks for your input on this. Everything helps. Sent from losPhone On Apr 1, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com wrote: Back to the original issue at hand. I think that is is definitely not optimal to be relying upon somebody's connection speed/bandwidth to determine fps and/or how to display content. I believe that's why people use preloaders. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hello Taka, I agree with you; as well, with regard to the swf, it would take a ton of in depth knowledge and understanding about its file structure, and how it handles tweens, that I don't have right now, in order for me to say if its even possible. Thanks. Anthony Pace Taka Kojima wrote: I believe the standard way of handling this is to have three different versions of your movie. low, normal and high quality (how you down the file size is totally dependent on you, could be dropping frames, could be lower rez, whatever). Which one gets loaded in can be determined by connection speed, I think this is pretty much the norm way of doing it, and while Anthony's solution is good in theory, I think it would be too much of a pain in the ars, not to mention a butt load of server-side processing every time a user loads your site. - Taka On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: default your mechanism? LOL defeat your mechanism? Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Karl, Despite what has been suggested, this will still only have a chance of working work for some flash Movies written in a certain way. Many of my flash movies are only one frame, sometimes just a handful of frames, so your attempt to smoothly run a high-bandwidth movie on a slow connection would fail for movies like mine - either because they load a lot of assets at a particular frame, or because they load assets via code during the movie. Either or both of these scenarios would default your mechanism. Maybe I have missed this somewhere - is a pre-loader out of the question? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Anthony, I am going to have to buy you a steak dinner for all the input you
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http://library.forum.nokia.com/index.jsp?topic=/Flash_Lite_Developers_Library/GUID-8EFDF519-AB3B-4FAC-804B-8FDFD08F9968.html Most of it should apply Some basic keys are: * reduce the use of filters * reduce the detail of your bitmaps * try not to rotate objects with filters on them * reduce the amount of objects you have on the stage being animated at once * reduce the use of alpha effects * reuse objects where possible instead of making new one, as each object needs to be stored in memory Taka Kojima wrote: Alright, well my two cents is that the problem isn't what you think it is, and here's why: I build a lot of sites and the reason it's chugging is not anything to do with streaming... if you truly do have a preloader, and it does load in 100% before playing, it's not a streaming issue. It seems to be a CPU issue. If the computers with slower connections you are testing on are older computers (which for some reason is usually the case) then it may seem like it's the connection speed, where in fact it is the CPU chugging. The idea that animating on the timeline is x amount slower than doing it through code is a myth that's not true. It is true that you can optimize some thing through code, but unless you're doing some crazy animation stuff then that's likely not the issue either. The proper solution: bring down the cpu usage, which isn't an exact science you'll just have to futz around with things and use common sense, such as using blank keyframes when things are off the stage, making sure you aren't animating a lot of vectors (and if you are use bitmap caching), etc. - Taka On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Please excuse the auto correction of my email client. It doesn't always know what I am trying to say. :p That's preloaders not preliaders Sent from losPhone On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Yes you are correct about the preliaders and the different versions of sites per connection speed. Here is what I am experiencing and why I am lookijng for this solution. I have a preloader on my site and it preloads fine. But even with the preload I still get a lag when it starts playing. There is no way I am building three sites every time I make a site. So I wanted to have a streaming script watch the stream and adjust accordingly so that there would be no lag. I have been to many flash site that load significantly faster than mine and they have more in them. Alas too a lot of my animations are animations and not tween animations. I am not the best coder (as you can tell) so I am relying on animation to suffice. This is not the best practice I know, but bills need to be paid and I have no time to go back to school. I am self taught and so the industry standards on how to do this, I have not been introduced to. I don't mean to sound like the biggest idiot, but in AS I guess I am. Thanks for your input on this. Everything helps. Sent from losPhone On Apr 1, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com wrote: Back to the original issue at hand. I think that is is definitely not optimal to be relying upon somebody's connection speed/bandwidth to determine fps and/or how to display content. I believe that's why people use preloaders. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hello Taka, I agree with you; as well, with regard to the swf, it would take a ton of in depth knowledge and understanding about its file structure, and how it handles tweens, that I don't have right now, in order for me to say if its even possible. Thanks. Anthony Pace Taka Kojima wrote: I believe the standard way of handling this is to have three different versions of your movie. low, normal and high quality (how you down the file size is totally dependent on you, could be dropping frames, could be lower rez, whatever). Which one gets loaded in can be determined by connection speed, I think this is pretty much the norm way of doing it, and while Anthony's solution is good in theory, I think it would be too much of a pain in the ars, not to mention a butt load of server-side processing every time a user loads your site. - Taka On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: default your mechanism? LOL defeat your mechanism? Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Karl, Despite what has been suggested, this will still only have a chance of working work for some flash Movies written in a certain way. Many of my flash movies are only one frame, sometimes just a handful of frames, so your attempt to smoothly run a high-bandwidth movie on a slow connection would fail for movies like mine - either because
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question
Perfect thank you... Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 1, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: http://library.forum.nokia.com/index.jsp?topic=/ Flash_Lite_Developers_Library/GUID-8EFDF519- AB3B-4FAC-804B-8FDFD08F9968.html Most of it should apply Some basic keys are: * reduce the use of filters * reduce the detail of your bitmaps * try not to rotate objects with filters on them * reduce the amount of objects you have on the stage being animated at once * reduce the use of alpha effects * reuse objects where possible instead of making new one, as each object needs to be stored in memory ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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Sorry I didn't respond earlier... passed out last night and just woke up. http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/AS3-Dynamically-Change-The-Frame-Rate-09765.html Should help you out. Karl DeSaulniers wrote: in this i mean movie = swf . i am not necessarily asking about just a moviclip but the whole movie. Hope that clarifies. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 30, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: First you say swf, and yes, controlling the frame rate for an swf is doable; yet, then you say movie... do you mean movie clip, or stream? Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Ok here is a new one. Is there a way to control the way your swf plays according to the bandwidth it's getting? For eg: control how fast FPS your movie plays according to the stream of info it's getting from the server? If the stream is low play fast and if the stream is good then play regular fps? All of this to simulate no lag. Karl Sent from losPhone ___ 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 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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I'm pretty confused by your requested, so I've probably got this wrong. You're trying to slow down a playing movie because it's not streaming it's content fast enough to play at the true frame rate? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Sorry I guess I was not clear on my first post, but I am looking to find out how to ready how much stream I am getting and adjust my frame rate of the movie (swf) accordingly. Main part of my question is to figure out how to get the stream info so to be able to adjust the FPS to it. Better?? Thanks for any input. Anthony, thanks for the FPS link, that will come in handy. BTW I am still coding in AS2 for this project. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 31, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: Sorry I didn't respond earlier... passed out last night and just woke up. http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/AS3-Dynamically-Change-The- Frame-Rate-09765.html Should help you out. Karl DeSaulniers wrote: in this i mean movie = swf . i am not necessarily asking about just a moviclip but the whole movie. Hope that clarifies. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 30, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: First you say swf, and yes, controlling the frame rate for an swf is doable; yet, then you say movie... do you mean movie clip, or stream? Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Ok here is a new one. Is there a way to control the way your swf plays according to the bandwidth it's getting? For eg: control how fast FPS your movie plays according to the stream of info it's getting from the server? If the stream is low play fast and if the stream is good then play regular fps? All of this to simulate no lag. Karl Sent from losPhone ___ 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 ___ 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
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Close. I am trying to basically see if I can control how fast my movie plays according to the type of stream it is receiving. If slow on bandwidth play faster, if normal or high bandwidth play at normal fps. So that when their is low bandwidth while loading page, the user never knows or sees it. No lag if you will. Sent from losPhone On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: I'm pretty confused by your requested, so I've probably got this wrong. You're trying to slow down a playing movie because it's not streaming it's content fast enough to play at the true frame rate? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Sorry I guess I was not clear on my first post, but I am looking to find out how to ready how much stream I am getting and adjust my frame rate of the movie (swf) accordingly. Main part of my question is to figure out how to get the stream info so to be able to adjust the FPS to it. Better?? Thanks for any input. Anthony, thanks for the FPS link, that will come in handy. BTW I am still coding in AS2 for this project. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 31, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: Sorry I didn't respond earlier... passed out last night and just woke up. http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/AS3-Dynamically-Change- The- Frame-Rate-09765.html Should help you out. Karl DeSaulniers wrote: in this i mean movie = swf . i am not necessarily asking about just a moviclip but the whole movie. Hope that clarifies. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 30, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: First you say swf, and yes, controlling the frame rate for an swf is doable; yet, then you say movie... do you mean movie clip, or stream? Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Ok here is a new one. Is there a way to control the way your swf plays according to the bandwidth it's getting? For eg: control how fast FPS your movie plays according to the stream of info it's getting from the server? If the stream is low play fast and if the stream is good then play regular fps? All of this to simulate no lag. Karl Sent from losPhone ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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Like a true 30fps no matter what the stream Sent from losPhone On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Close. I am trying to basically see if I can control how fast my movie plays according to the type of stream it is receiving. If slow on bandwidth play faster, if normal or high bandwidth play at normal fps. So that when their is low bandwidth while loading page, the user never knows or sees it. No lag if you will. Sent from losPhone On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: I'm pretty confused by your requested, so I've probably got this wrong. You're trying to slow down a playing movie because it's not streaming it's content fast enough to play at the true frame rate? Paul - Original Message - From: Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question Sorry I guess I was not clear on my first post, but I am looking to find out how to ready how much stream I am getting and adjust my frame rate of the movie (swf) accordingly. Main part of my question is to figure out how to get the stream info so to be able to adjust the FPS to it. Better?? Thanks for any input. Anthony, thanks for the FPS link, that will come in handy. BTW I am still coding in AS2 for this project. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 31, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: Sorry I didn't respond earlier... passed out last night and just woke up. http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/AS3-Dynamically-Change-The- Frame-Rate-09765.html Should help you out. Karl DeSaulniers wrote: in this i mean movie = swf . i am not necessarily asking about just a moviclip but the whole movie. Hope that clarifies. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 30, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: First you say swf, and yes, controlling the frame rate for an swf is doable; yet, then you say movie... do you mean movie clip, or stream? Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Ok here is a new one. Is there a way to control the way your swf plays according to the bandwidth it's getting? For eg: control how fast FPS your movie plays according to the stream of info it's getting from the server? If the stream is low play fast and if the stream is good then play regular fps? All of this to simulate no lag. Karl Sent from losPhone ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS question
First you say swf, and yes, controlling the frame rate for an swf is doable; yet, then you say movie... do you mean movie clip, or stream? Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Ok here is a new one. Is there a way to control the way your swf plays according to the bandwidth it's getting? For eg: control how fast FPS your movie plays according to the stream of info it's getting from the server? If the stream is low play fast and if the stream is good then play regular fps? All of this to simulate no lag. Karl Sent from losPhone ___ 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
