External swf and sound problem. Please help

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Hi,
I have a few swf which load into a main movie. I want to use a sound (about 1,5 minutes speech) related to each of the external swf movies (if I have 3 swf, then 3 differend sound clip).
The question is: is that better to include the sound in each swf itself and load the swf WITH sound or loading each swf and then playing the relating sound in the main movie?

Thanks :slight_smile:
mx-guest2004

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sounds like you’re going to have quite a bit of load time for those sounds (if they’re towards the 5 minute side each!)

it might be asking too much to load them all in the main movie and have the user wait initially for all three when they may only want to hear one.

i’d put the sounds in the external .swfs… That way if you need to stream them to match up with any keyframes you can…

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natronp,
I wrote 1,5 minutes not 5.
I think it’s maybe better to load all sounds first. In the other way it may take some time to load the swf and this can affect the whole impression.
In this way one can play the sound when the relating swf is loaded.
My question: is the sound in this way synchronized? Any experience with this issue?
An example is here:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0407/sights_n_sounds/media2.html

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hmmm…

“1,5” huh? did you mean “1.5” as in one and a half minutes?

anyhow, i’m pretty sure that example you gave uses a dedicated server for streaming…(flashcomm, etc.)

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Yes, 1,5 = 1.5 :slight_smile:
But anyway, what do you mean by “dedicated server for streaming…(flashcomm, etc.)”?
Could you please explain a little more this issue?
Do I need other than publishing a flash movie from a “ordinary server” ?
Thanks

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Some of it depends on length of the sound and if your using timeline sounds or sound objects, as sound objects export on frame one. Meaning, if you have a large sound exporting on frame one, it will load before your preloader. I would place the sounds into the swf’s either way.

You might want to check the tutorial in my sig for more into.

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Thanks, I will look at your tutorial.
So, it’s not anything special with the server, is that right?
mx-guest2004

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You can stream sound without a special server, if all you need is simple streaming sound. “Streaming”, however, has several denotations. I suspect you don’t need anything special.

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Thanks kennyb, :slight_smile:
The type of streaming will be something like the link I gave above and give here one more time:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0407/sights_n_sounds/media2.html

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That should be no problem for you.