[Flashcoders] Sound.loadSound --- when does streaming actually start?

2006-01-05 Thread John Olson
If I load an external MP3 into the Flash player and set up Flash to load it
as a streaming event, when does it start to play?  

In the AS2 language reference, it states : Streaming sounds play while they
are downloading. Playback begins when sufficient data has been received to
start the decompressor. So what is sufficient data?   

The reason I am asking is that I was trying to stream very low bitrate MP3s,
but they were long (1+ minutes around). When I used the bandwidth testing in
Flash for 56K modem, the MP3 had to almost entirely download before it
started.  

- John 





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Re: [Flashcoders] Sound.loadSound --- when does streaming actually start?

2006-01-05 Thread Justin Bishop
Hello All. I'm new to the flash mailing list (as in, today) and
relatively new to flash (about 2 months).  I'm loving flash and
excited to have found this great mailing list! ;o)

John, I am a newbie to flash so please take my help lightly. ;o)  But
I think what you want is to set _soundbuftime .  This is a property of
every movieclip, but it is a global variable,  Check for it in the
Actionscript dictionary. ;o)

Good luck.

-Justin Bishop

On 1/5/06, John Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 If I load an external MP3 into the Flash player and set up Flash to load it
 as a streaming event, when does it start to play?

 In the AS2 language reference, it states : Streaming sounds play while they
 are downloading. Playback begins when sufficient data has been received to
 start the decompressor. So what is sufficient data?

 The reason I am asking is that I was trying to stream very low bitrate MP3s,
 but they were long (1+ minutes around). When I used the bandwidth testing in
 Flash for 56K modem, the MP3 had to almost entirely download before it
 started.

 - John





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