Hello all, I’m new here but I’m in desperate need of help.
As a background I’ve been working on webdesign for some years now, having worked mainly in full flash websites with a lot of actionscripting.
Thus I consider myself quite familiar with actionscript but only AS2 as I’ve still haven’t made the cross to AS3 (I know i’m almost 5 years late…).
I’ve been recently hired to convert interactive points on some museums that were working with dvd menu’s to flash. I’ve constructed and programmed everything with no trouble at all using some programing to use a circular menu and the flvplayback component to load external 720P HD movies on f4v format.
Everything was working perfectly until I was faced with the real PC’s that were being used on the museums. Some of them are okay PC’s and so I just had to reduce the quality of the videos a bit (a 20 mb bitrate was too much… lol).
However some of them are the equivalent of netbooks (like the Asus EEE PC) and that’s where my nightmare begun.
So the real problem is this: the computers can run the HD videos perfectly through the VLC media player. However, using the flash presentation either on flash projector or an swf running through an html on internet explorer results in an unwatchable video all sloppy and with buggy sound.
I’ve even tried loading the videos inside a totally empty flash project which still resulted on the same problems.
What happens is that when the flash loads the videos the system usage of the processor results in 60 percent with peaks reaching the 80 percent.
The weirdest part is that sites like youtube that run HD movies work on those pc’s but my presentation does not.
Do you have any suggestions on what might be happening?? Is this a problem that has to do with the FlvPlayback component and that I could solve using the Open Source BetterFlv component instead?
What do you think??
Thank you in advance:
John More (Portugal)
