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Flash )) MX Preloader With Compressed Movies Problem
Hi

I am trying to get a preloader to work with a compressed movie out of Flash MX. It is fine when it is uncompressed, but when compressed it still loads as if it was the original file size??

Am I doing something wrong or is there a workaround/better way of doing it?

Thanks in advance

SPRITE

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I have a main movie and within that movie other movies are loaded, but it takes too long to load. Is it possible to preload a movie within a movie? An example is at www.henrycraig.net

thanks for any help
Henry Craig
hcraig4@hotmail.com

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hie,

i've been working on a site with a main movie, and several separate movies that are loaded in, when the user click on specified buttons.

My thing is that all those separate movies have a preloader scene, but when they are loaded into the main movie, the preloader scene, doesn't play, and it start playing directly from the main scene..

Example.. i have the main movie (intro), when finished loads the menus (external movie, you should first see the preloader, and after that the menu), if you click in projects (another movie start loading).

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If I embed one of those swfs into an HTML page by itself and open it in a browser, the preloader works.

But, if I embed the final 'base' swf that loads each of those layout pieces, their preloaders don't do anything...the movies just play when the browser's ugly blue progress bar at the bottom is done.

What am I missing?

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Ok I'm building a timeline with a series of important dates! The viewer will be able to click on the date to view a small video of the event! At the end of the video, it goes back to the timeline....

I need the small video to be on their own preloader, so that the viewer only preload what he/she wants to see!

I've build everything, and I use the
on (press) {
loadMovie("1895mc.swf", _root.mc);
}
method to start my outside video! It works great locally!!!!!
As soon as I put it on the server, when you click on the date, the whole video loads before it starts playing.... You only see the preloader after everything is loaded (kind of defeat the purpose)
Anyway what script do I need to use to play the outside .swf without loading it into the main movie first? I do need to keep the timeline loaded to go back to it at the end of the video without having to reload!
I've posted the .swf and the .fla to download here:

http://inexo.com/demo/

Right now the first date 1895 is the only one with a video and yes it will be compressed to make sure the file size is acceptable!...1903, 1953 and a couple others have sound but no video yet!!! You can download the main .fla and the 1895.fla to check out the logic! The graphic part of the preloader for 1895 is not done so if it looks weird.....it's normal!!!

Thanks

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I'm having trouble in that i get a pause when i try and load movies into my main movie (into level 1 using the loadmovie action). I have a preloader for each movie i'm loading, but it doesn't work very well, as there's a pause and then after a few seconds the preloader comes up briefly then the movie plays. I would like the "loading bar" to come up as soon as i click on the link

To view the problem, it's www.randyclothing.com.au - just click on any of the links there... they're all loaded movies and the preloaders don't kick in for seconds. It's annoying, and i'm not too experienced with scripting so i probably have done something stupid.

here is the preloader script:

loadedbytes = getBytesLoaded();
totalbytes = getBytesTotal();
if (loadedbytes == totalbytes) {
gotoAndPlay(3);
}
frame = int(loadedbytes/(totalbytes/100));
loader.gotoAndStop(frame);

the script in my main movie to load movie is as follows:

on (release) {
gotoAndStop(135);
loadMovieNum("g4.swf", 1);
}

any help would be appreciated. (i have a gotoandStop (135) there, because i want to first have the button disappear before loading the movie, so you can't keep clicking on it)

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Thanks in advance.

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http://www.dadshrine.com/interview.php

I interviewed George Lowe for my site, and I wanted people to be able to hear his responses. But the 56kers have to wait rediculously long to hear them, I was wondeing if I could just pop these into individual preloaders, so they know when the file is ready.

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I am curious about preloaders.... and which are best in these instances..

for a big file like this do you think the swf is an external swf being loaded?
http://www.elizabeththegoldenage.net/site.html

http://www.thingswelostinthefire.com/

For big swf movies like this is it best to load an external SWF and if so next question is how do you use a preloader to load an external swf? simple example?
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Hi,

I'm using empty movie clips to load a few particularly large external swfs into my website. Each external swf has its own preloader. I've tested these and work perfectly normal - independently.

Once I load them into the website, the preloaders appear not to function and the external swfs load in really choppy and slow. I'm using getbytesloaded preloaders so this shouldn't be happening.

Anyone know what is up? should I change the preloaders in the external swf from _root commands to something else?

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Help: Preloaders For Various Flash Movies ...
FlashMX Actionscript:

I am basically having a problem with my site.
I have one flash file, and from there are several
links. Each new link when clicked opens up a new flash
movie using loadmovie in a target movie clip.
I created preloaders for each of the individual flash
files.
However when testing for streaming, it does not work.
My site is
http://www.msdivine.net/alexeisayle/alexeisayle.htm

Example, from the main flash file, when I click on
filmography, the movie laods, but prelaoder doesn't
work. However, when I test my filmography movie
indiviually, by running filmography.htm, the preloader
works. Please advise.

It's easier to see this problem on modem connections.
since faster connections already loads the files.

=====
Toodles,
Ms. Divine
http://www.msdivine.net

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i dunno if anyone's had this problem or knows how to solve it but any help would be greatly appreciated! here goes...

my movie resides completely on the first frame and i have external videos (quicktime movies converted into swf files) that are loaded in when the user clicks a button. this is all groovey and works fine; however, the size of the project is such that it now requires a preloader. i moved the movie to frame 2 and built a bog standard preloader in frame 1 but whenever the external swf movies load in, the playhead jumps to frame 1 and the whole lot starts again. i have added a stop() command to the first frame of the main movie but still no joy. if anyone has any ideas, please, please let me know...

chees

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Ok I have the normal preloader script:

My question is: Can I put this preloader in main.swf, and get it to tell me the percent loaded of the clip loading into contentMC?

if (_root.getBytesLoaded()>=_root.getBytesTotal()) {
_root.gotoAndPlay (2);
} else {
loader._xscale=(_root.getBytesLoaded()/_root.getBytesTotal())*100
percentage = Math.round(loader._xscale) +"%"
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Presumably it is stored in their cache and the preload scene could be avoided....is there any way of using actionscript to skip the preload second time around..?

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Hi peoples, this question is regarding the following website: www.aniphase.com

I'm having difficulties with a site. The structure of it is such that when pressing a button another section loads with the loadmovie script. Each section has a preloader scene that leads to a main scene. The script in the last frame of the preloader movie is as follows:

if (_root.percentLoaded == 100) {
gotoAndPlay("Environments", 1);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
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Now the problem is most of the time the viewer goes into any of the sections for the second time it tends to go blank or play funny, example: the profile section).

Can anybody take a look at the site and maybe diagnose what's going on?

Thanks

iam2001

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Hi all,

I've set up a website to load external .swfs to save load time up front. Each of these swfs has their own preloader. The idea being, when the user clicks on one of those links, a preloader would display loading the external movie.

These movies do load in, but no preloader runs and the screen is left blank for quite sometime until they partially load in.

What's up? I have a getbytesloaded preloader on my maintimeline and each of the external movies uses getbytesloaded.

I'm using a simple loadmovie command to call them.

Help........would be greatly appreciated
thanks.

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Hi everyone,

What's the best way use preloaders with external movies in terms of getting the preloader up onscreen as fast as possible. Hate having a blank screen hanging for a few seconds before the preloader appears!

I'm building a dynamic flash site that loads content (external movies) on demand. I've built the preloader (also an external movie) into the first frame of the other external movies, but there remains a lot of lag. The preloader is common to all the movies and is only 2kb but takes a few seconds before is appears.

Should I be building the preloader into the main movie?

Thanks
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Hi,

I am having a problem with preloaders in movies which are loaded into another movie. Basically I have this on the first frame of the movie:

total_bytes = _level0.backHolder.getBytesTotal();
loaded_bytes = _level0.backHolder.getBytesLoaded();
percent_done = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100);
bar._width = percent_done;
if(percent_done == 100) {
stop();
_level0.nextFrame();
}

Which loops over 2 frames with a gotoAndPlay(1) on the next frame. Trouble is the movie which is loading this in should stop at Frame one until this is loaded (_level0.nextFrame()) but it isn't, it's moving to frame 2 where the next movie is loaded...why? This is a Flash 5 example and I am using mx 2004?

Maybe it would be better for the main movie to assign the preloader and control the loading? But how can I do this?

Hope someone can help

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Because I have an fla that contains 4 different swfs that are loaded with the loadMovie action--but the preloader never really takes time to load...even when I simulate download on 14.4.

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hi there,
I have one flash file, and from there are several links. Each new link when clicked opens up a new flash movie using loadmovie in a target movie clip.
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However when testing for streaming, it does not work.
My site is http://www.msdivine.net/alexeisayle/alexeisayle.htm

Example, from the main flash file, when I click on filmography, the movie laods, but prelaoder doesn't work. However, when I test my filmography movie indiviually, by running filmography.htm, the preloader works. Please advise.

It's easier to see this problem on modem connections. since faster connections already loads the files.

Please help

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