I'm building a media player with alot of tweens in the interface , I'm wondering what is common or exceptable in the professional flash community.When I tween the whole Interface into another view firefox spikes to 12 - 16 cpu on a 3.01 GHz duo-core. Is this normal? acceptable? After the tween Firefox flunctuates between 2 - 8 cpu while idle.
View 6 RepliesI'm building a media player with alot of tweens in the interface , I'm wondering what is common or exceptable in the professional flash community. When I tween the whole Interface into another view firefox spikes to 12 - 16 cpu on a 3.01 GHz duo-core. Is this normal? After the tween Firefox flunctuates between 2 - 8 cpu while idle.
View 6 RepliesI have been having a serious issue with custom video where flash is saying that the amount of the video so far played is MORE than the amount that it has downloaded, which is clearly impossible. This results in various problems, such as the playhead (scrubber) moving past the end of the loader bar. I posted a simple demo that displays the amount loaded and the amount played in text fields. You can see it at: [URL][Code]...
View 5 RepliesSo I have been having a serious issue with custom video where flash is saying that the amount of the video so far played is MORE than the amount that it has downloaded, which is clearly impossible. This results in various problems, such as the playhead (scrubber) moving past the end of the loader bar.I posted a simple demo that displays the amount loaded and the amount played in text fields. You can see it at: URL...[code]I encoded the video at a high rate so that it would download slowly. It may not playback smoothly, which I am not concerned about. What I am concerned about is the numbers below the video what are derived from ns.bytesLoaded and ns.time. If you watch it for a bit, the amount played should exceed the amount loaded.
I double checked the video duration and the bytestotal that flash is reporting and they are correct. I don't know of any way to check the accuracy of bytesloaded.If your internet connection is super fast, you may not see the issue - it only occurs when it is playing back faster than it is downloading - if this is the case, you may need to throttle your speed down, or start downloading a large file while you are watching this demo in order to see the issue.But this is a serious issue and means that building custom video interfaces with loadbars and playheads is impossible!
We're in process of trying to purchase a new server. Our server unit wanted to provide a VM instance, which I told them would not work (according to the documentation). So, their next suggestion is to provide a blade server. Is this an acceptable configuration (assuming they meet recommended CPU/RAM requirements) to install FMS?
View 1 RepliesI am creating some sort of interactive background and at is current state of development the master constructor function have like 15 parameters that need to be put in. I can add at least 6-8 more and make it really flexible, but I start to wander if this will be such a good idea. I am not sure that the general people that I am developing this class would like to type so many parameters before using it to full potential. So there is only 2 must enter parameters and like 13 that you may want to change or leave the original values. My question is if there is some common practice about this? Is it to many or no? Just for idea this is the function at this point (working ok):
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new Maker(textTest,15,150,200,2,8,3,5,0.3,1.5,4,360,0.003,30);
I have always used getURL("whatever.mp3", "_blank") to allow a user to play an external mp3 on his/her own systems player (i.e. Real Player, Quicktime,etc.) and never had a problem. A new window opens up with (in my case) a Quicktime player/progress bar and I can hear the music play almost immediately. Aside from scripting a custom mp3 player, is this an acceptable way of playing mp3s on a website?
Here's why I ask: A site I just built for someone doesnt quite work that way. My client says that Real Player is his default player for mp3s and the popup window reads "Error page not found". anyone point me to a tutorial that explains mp3 file-type associations and hopefully provides a solution to my clients errant popup?
I wrote an application in flash AS3, and when I trace from flash the total memory usage of the total application is only about 9MB, But at the same time Task Manager Shows the memory usage as 110MB. Around 100MB difference.Flash Trace Method System.totalMemory difference of the Trace from the Beginning of the application to end of the application.
View 2 RepliesMy Flex person claims that now Flex can do for iPhone as well. Whereas my iPhone person says Apps done in windows environment cannot be acceptable by App Store. Does anyone expert in both can tell me real thing.
View 2 RepliesI'm debugging a flash website that do a request to an php file named upload.php to upload some images to the server.The problem i'm having that debugging it with Firebug the request to that page is throwing a 406 Not Acceptable status code and is not saving the images.
Post Data: This website runs well on the staging server but in production server this process of the image upload fails. I only can assume that a change to apache configuration / php must be done.
I'm looking at finding a way of recording the amount of times a swf is loaded or a button pressed with the aim of giving a client feedback about how their product is used.Basically I am creating a touch screen app for a client which will contain a couple of hundred images and the client would like to keep track of which images are loaded in and how many times.
I looked at Mochibot which seems good however I don't think this app I am building will be connected to the Internet. So that's not a viable option. So is it possible to output something locally? Which will get added too every time the app is used. Even if the computer and app are restarted?
Currently when I load my presentation that I have just recently created and testing I'm getting a HUGE spike in my cpu usage.
I'm running an i5 2.4, and it's nearly taking up 100%, a friend of mine is running a core 2 duo and it's taking up 100% of the cores.
What is a proper way to optimize for these occurances? I don't have any preloaders up and running yet.
Here is the link to the site.
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I'm user of relatively weak computer (pentium IV 3.0 with hyper-threadingiem) but with a bit newer graphic card - asus radeon HD4650I'm not big new games fun, I'm useing my hardware most to internet access so I would rather not to buy new computer in the near future. But also I would like to have possibility to watch flash movies fluently on full screen (eg. youtube, video streeming). Unfortunatelly, till now, it was pretty weak. I got hope that afther new flash release (lately), which should use computing power of graphic card and making CPU work lighter.
Unfortunatelly, afther flash update (10.1) I haven't noticed any changes - everything work in the same way (not fluently) as at old flash. CPU usage is still ca.100% and GPU usage is 0% (I can see it in control panel) What is wrong? Is it this version of flash what should use GPU or it is not yet? Maybe I should configure something more? Or is it possible that I made something wrong? I've tried few times, made lots of work and combinations (instaling and reinstaling different versions of flashs, graphic card drivers, browsers changing etc) and still nothing.
I have a question concerning CPU usage for games. What do people consider as an average or 'acceptable' amount of cpu usage for a game I've created a few different games, some which are more database driven have a very low cpu usage and small size.. others I've seen go up to 80% cpu usage..
I do try to keep a careful eye on this (I mean 80% of one core, of which I have 8.. I'm not sure how this will reflect on a single core/processor machine) but it does really concern me because as soon as I add an 'enterframe' function, spin something around or create a fair size animation it piles on the intensity to the cpu.. are there any professional tips anybody could offer me please ? I really want to make the web a better place for others by not overloading their computers
Is there some way to get the cpu usage in flash or adobe AIR?
I'm using ActionScript 3.0 and flash CS5.
i don't understand the usage of prototype.
View 4 RepliesI am making a websites with fairly large videos in the background.The site is extremely heavy for the cpu and I was wondering if any of you guys know a trick on how to make flv streaming less heavy.Here are all my specs :
Large flv (920 x460), with alpha channel (transparent background), Max data rate:300kbs,
codec : On2 VP6 encode alpha channel, framerate : same as source.
Using progressive download
Video plays in a flvplayback instance nested in a swf that is loaded and added to the stage by an other swf.
Embed in the html page with swfobject, wmode = opaque.
Movie playing at 31 fps.
I would like to use the mouse wheel with a quiz I've been making.I have it set up so when you roll the mouse up it goes to the next question and when you roll it down it goes back to the previous question.It isn't working as I would like though, It doesn't scroll through increments of 1 - theres 50 questions in the test and its scrolling through them like this 1,2,4,8,16,32,FinishedIf anybody knows a way I could use the mouse wheel to scroll through the quiz.
View 2 RepliesI've many unicode russian (cyrillic) fonts installed on my mac. When i type message like "T" type-tool - they show russian letters. When i embed it in Library like Font class, 50% of my fonts doesn't show russian letters.
View 1 Repliesin the "Interactive 3D Video Flip" tutorial i take the cod and applied to my stuff I noticed that when the page was rotated the Flash player consume 40-50% from my CPU , how it's possible? the animation it's finish but the CPU it's 40-50% used . tested in mozilla and IE and from Flash ( when i test the movie) Pentium 4 and athlon 64 X2 tested!!!.. windows 7 last version of flash player 10.045.
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how the post_param is used in SWFUpload. i need the value for name='batchid' loaded when i submit. this is what the example doc shows
post_params : {
"post_param_name_1" : "post_param_value_1",
"post_param_name_2" : "post_param_value_2",
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System.totalMemory gives the total memory used by the flash player and not one particular application. Is there any way I can get the flex application's memory usage in code/actionscript?
View 3 RepliesI'm just started doing 'hands-on' learning of Actionscript 3 using FlashDevelop. I've now managed to subclass a sprite, load a graphic from the library, and manipulate it around the stage. Next step is doing the same with a MovieClip, but it doesn't seem to be as simple. Basically, I want a simple subclass of MovieClip, that uses a SWF that I created & exported in Flash CS5 (anything else that can create them?), and then added it into my library in FlashDevelop.
In my 'Main' class, I want something like this:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.Event;
public class Main extends Sprite {
private var myClip:MovieClip;
But that says the child is null, and I'm not sure I should be creating a 'new' MovieClip inside my sub-classed MovieClip anyways.
How much memory in bytes can Flash normally handle? I have a fairly involved program that is running at 39MB usage and now may be causing some memory issues (I'm not sure it's the memory, since it was running smoothly up until I made a few code changes and now Flash freezes after making those changes). But anyway, I have been wondering about memory usage and Flash CS3 and felt like this was a good topic to dicuss. Is there a way to force an increase in available memory for Flash?
View 2 RepliesI am doing a flash getting data from mysql. My Database is quite big (200+MB) with lots of datas. here is my problems, after using my flash for some searching, maybe because of calling mysql to get too much data (like getting 900 records with their names and images), my memory usage increase to over 2 GB. Thus my flash is dead. I need to restart it. Is there any ways to reduce the memory usage?? Or it might be some other problems. I am quite new at my job, so it might be something that I forget to close ot remove.
View 2 RepliesIn my appilcation i need to plot a graph same as in CPU Usage History (In windows see task manager). The data is available in the form of array collection or xml. I want to update the grph from right to left..
View 3 RepliesI have a script as follows attached to an MC that is pretty processor intensive (well, that is when the MC is duplicated 30 times). I'm looking for some input from people on how to possibly optimize this to cut back on how badly it lags the rest of the movie. My computer is quite powerful but it still shows performance issues with this script:
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onClipEvent(load) {
//size of purpleCloud's active area
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usage of the delete method?
In all my years of flash programming I've never come used it .
Does anyone know if there are any classes that expose information about bandwidth usage? For example, I would like to know when my Flash file is really pushing the bandwidth by loading a bunch of stuff (like images), versus when its basically sitting idle.
Now I know I can get stuff like progress events from an individual load but thats not what I mean here. I want to be able to get a current level of activity for my entire movie which is currently running....not information about a particular item which is being loaded.
I'm puzzled by the use of the colon in the return line of this function (return {r:r, g:g, b:b}). It returns an object with the properties r, g, and b, but I couldn't find this usage in any reference I've looked at. Is there any documentation of this?
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Color.HEXtoRGB =function(hex) var rgb24 = (isNaN(hex)) ? parseInt(hex, 16) : hex; = rgb24 >>16; var g
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