[SWFObject] does size really matter?

[Aran Rhee]

Steve.
 
The flash video trailer you are loading : wolfmuzik_trailer_template_a.swf
<http://www.wolfmuzik.com/swf/wolfmuzik_trailer_template_a.swf>  is quite
large (6.5 mb). I think If you put a preloader on the .swf file, you would
find that the problem goes away. 
 
This basically means the swf file waits on a frame until it is fully loaded,
then plays the content.
 
Also, your video file is encoded at 500x375, while you are embedding it on
the page with the size 450x250. You can either re-encode your video to the
actual size you want o the page to save some file size, or you could
increase the screen size on the page to be 100% of the video size.
 
 
Cheers,
Aran
 
 


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From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
[mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Steve Wolf and
Wolf Muzik
Sent: Friday, 25 August 2006 7:37 AM
To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Subject: [SWFObject] does size really matter?


I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on a problem I'm having using
the SWFObject strategy for Flash (can I use that word?) in a Netscape or
similar browser.

Here's the page I'm working on:
http://wolfmuzik.com/home.html

I need the movie to play when the page loads - the movie runs 85 seconds
then I'm redirecting to another page. 

The problem is that sometimes the movie plays, sometimes not, sometimes when
I reload it solves the problem - sometimes not. 
    When it's stalled it displays the 1st frame.
    I took the redirect out - same issue.

The movie can't wait to start up in IE - runs like a champ. 

I'm wondering if it's a file size issue - the swf I rendered for my little
trailer is 20 MEG, but when I stick a 3.5 MEG file in there it runs:
http://wolfmuzik.com/home_test_b.html

Any insights would be greatfully accepted. 

BTW, I just learned html 2 weeks ago so my code probably really sucks... 

Best,
Steve Wolf
       <http://www.wolfmuzik.com/clips.html> 
 <http://www.wolfmuzik.com/clips.html> Wolf Muzik
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310.862.4020
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727.480.4243


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