# Huge Playback Issues

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 15, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019 "2003-05-15T21:19:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 15\
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**Author:** ![ndevore007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19adc/32.png) [@ndevore007](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ndevore007)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/1 "2003-05-15T21:19:59Z")

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So I finished this presentation for school, the problem is I have to show it tomorrow and can’t get the playbakc right. The .swf file is about 12.5 meg and I am playing it on a 550Mhz Dell Latitude CPX Laptop with 128MB Ram. The show wills stop playing in the middle and I have to use the back command and then the play command to resume it. Does anyone have any ideas on another application I could use to play the file or another way to export it, I have found it plays back better when I publish it as a projector file. Thanks in advance for any help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/2 "2003-05-15T21:23:50Z")

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Is it all in one scene? If it is, you may want to break it up into loads of scenes.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/3 "2003-05-15T21:41:43Z")

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Its in multiple scenes but the bulk of the content is contained on one scene, is there an easy way for me to break up the one scene into several?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/4 "2003-05-15T21:48:04Z")

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Sorry bro, just hard graft

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/5 "2003-05-15T21:49:18Z")

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Is it stopping in the _main bulk_ scene?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/6 "2003-05-15T22:08:29Z")

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yeah, I just grafted the scene into three seperate scenes, waiting for it to publish now.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/7 "2003-05-15T22:12:56Z")

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Cool. Fingers crossed for ya

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/8 "2003-05-15T22:37:12Z")

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No Luck, I found though that it usually plays fine the second time, but the first nope, and the third it doesn’t.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/9 "2003-05-15T22:40:18Z")

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Probably would have been best to use a series of load movies. Flash gets all weird when the file size gets that big.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/10 "2003-05-15T22:48:54Z")

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I can try that, do you have any guidance on how I would do that?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/11 "2003-05-15T22:56:14Z")

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Have your menu on level 1 [For arguments sake].  
Then when a button is clicked have it load on say level 2. If another button is clicked have that load on level 2

If it’s a straightforward presentation with no menu, export each scene as individual movies and just have a _load movie_ at the end of each one to load the next scene.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/12 "2003-05-15T23:34:59Z")

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There’s no menu, so in the last frame of each movie all I have to do is add a loadmovie command. correct? So should I just save all the .swfs into one folder and do a erlative hyperlink to them?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/13 "2003-05-15T23:43:18Z")

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I got it to work, the playback is smooth as glass. Thankyou Tons.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/14 "2003-05-15T23:46:34Z")

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Sweeeeet! hope it goes well m8 🙂

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/huge-playback-issues/21019/15 "2003-05-16T01:04:50Z")

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It should be pretty sweet, the audio is awesome, I’m surprised their letting me even touch the sound system at school again, I blew out the amp on wensday 🙂
