Hi guys, I'm working on a big flash site with lots of component swfs and a ton of heavy multimedia (video, audio, image) content. File sizes are quickly getting ridiculous and I'm looking around for solutions--I want to minimize user wait time as much as possible (and my art direction is such that minimizing multimedia isn't an option)...
I am using swfin to embed a swf object (video player) and it loads fine in all browsers, but in firefox it won't "start". I have to right click on the movie area and "start" is unchecked so I click on "start" and it will start just fine. Yet, in chrome and IE (haven't moved to a mac for testing yet) it fires up and starts just as I exp...
I want to make such flv like in this video example How do I do this? Environment: Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) FFmpeg version SVN-r20412 ...
I wish to know if there is an efficient alternative for SIFR. We are facing performance challenges with SIFR and we wish to replace it. One option is that we just use system fonts. Can someone please provide any direction in which we can research and solve the performance issue that we are having with SIFR. Even a replacement suggestion ...
Hi! I'm creating library swfs in as3 this way, works like a charm (except for the slow mxmlc compiler): package { import flash.display.Sprite; public class Library extends Sprite { [Embed(source="assets/test.png")] public var TestBitmap:Class; } } I would like to create the same kind of libary using swfmill. I've tried ...
I've embedded a virtual tour on one of my client sites. The site is hosted by Slicehost, and as you can see the load times for the Flash movies are very slow, so my idea was to serve the swf files from Amazon S3 Europe. To test it, I have all swfs uploaded to the same directory / bucket on Amazon, while the index.html and p2q_embed_ob...
I am trying to find a way to upload the following flash replay to youtube easily http://battlestations.mobileweapon.net/history_view.php?hid=274641 I want to do these for a large number of replays from the site. Problem is, I can't download the swf or flv somehow even after trying various flash downloader tools, such as Flashgot firefo...
Forgive me if this is a really stupid question, but I cant figure it out. I must admit this is my first project in flex as opposed to flash cs3. All of the assets that I'm using in my .swc are in a .fla that is 1024x768. Nothing in my actionscript code is scaling down the size of my app, but every time I test my project, my project on...
What's a good SWF optimizer? ...
I'm loading an swf file into my main application using URLLoader, I want to get the background color of the loaded swf file. ( I heard that one solution wold be reading the byte code of the loaded swf ) ...
I am having an issue with the browser not caching a SWF file. I have the following in my apache configuration: ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 2 months" I can see the headers coming back from the original request for the SWF look like this (the expires header looks like it's being set properly): Request: U...
Hi I used Loader to load an external swf file, and try to display it in a fixed area, like a fixed dimention sprite object. And I dont know the exact size of the swf file, I just want it to fit the fixed area. Is that possible? code: var loader:Loader = new Loader(); loader.load(new URLRequest("some path")); loader.contentLoaderInfo...
I'm looking for something that automatically generates images from the content in some SWF and stores the images on a server to be fetched if the user doesn't have Flash Player installed. The purpose is to at least show a static diagram instead of just a table with data, if Flash Player isn't installed. It's quite easy to create an ima...
We're writing an extension for Google Chrome, which only consists of inserting a Flash object in the HTML content. This FLash object generate public external events that can be trapped in JavaScript. Events are correctly trapped if in a normal HTML page, but inside the Chrome extension, it doesn't work. It's like Chrome is blocking an...
Hi everybody! Never had to do some ...Flash stuff, but now a customer wants me to make a Flash intro in her (ASP MVC) site! The scenario is this: images are stored in the dbms. Every image belongs to a category. Depending on what category is selected, the corresponding images should be fetched and played in a flash player with "transit...
I am trying to implement a large font for sIFR, but it seems to have a ceiling where you cant go any higher. I have adjusted the the variable MAX_FONT_SIZE within the sIFR.as to no avail. Is this possible or is it a limitation with flash? ...
I'm using jQuery sIFR plugin for text replacement, although it works perfectly but there's a link to an unnamed and non-existing ".swf" file. Is it issue related to the sIFR plugin I'm using? How do I fix it? Many thanks ...
Version 8 of the Flash SWF format provides the DefineFontAlignZones tag for better text rendering. The advanced text rendering engine uses alignment zones to establish the borders of a glyph for pixel snapping. In order to use this tag I have to calculate the alignment zone for each used glyph. Does anybody know how to do this? ...
I'm desperate to find the ShmooCon talk by HP's Prajakta Jagdale on SWFScan and flash decompilation. All I could find was the HP white paper itself. Anyone who can help, would be greatly appreciated. ...
Is there a simple way to have a preloader that just traces the percentage and then goes on to the main game? Just as simple as possible, so that I can add in the progress bar/logo animation after. I tried the thing at mindless-labs, but its really complicated, it seems kind of hackerish, I don't really understand what it's doing and it u...