Flash :: Why Is My Flash Intro Taking So Long To Download?

Flash Taking Too Long To Load
I have designed a new website built in static html with portfolio files built in flash - a separate swf for each client we work for to speed up loading - but I am still having trouble with loading times for some of the files!! I am fairly new to flash and have made the images within the files all 72dpi, and within flash have chosen the gif option for each image - can anyone tell me the ideal size for a flash file or how i can make thee files smaller - load quckier, etc.??

Exporting Flash Movie - Taking Way Too Long
Hello,

I am developing my first CD-ROM, that will have a lot of video (that will play in the flash presentation) and audio (mp3).

Now that I have added some sound and video, it is taking FOREVER to export as an .SWF file. Should I somehow be linking to these files externally?? Not sure how to do that.

Thanks!

Flash Movie Taking Too Long To Load Up
Hi guys,

My website http://www.isokodesign.com is taking too long to upload, can somebody tell me how to fix this problem? Thank you in advance

[Flash 8] Dynamically Loading Pngs Using XML But, Why Is It Taking So Long?
Dear all,

I'm dynamically loading pngs into an attached movieclip. It works fine testing it locally but when its up on a server, it takes quite a while to load each picture, even though they are only between 10-20kbs each.

Why is this? and how can I make sure they all 'show up' first before starting the clip. (rather than they pop up one at a time).

Thanks

How Long Should A Flash Intro Animation Be?
About 30 - 60 seconds before the user skips it?

This Is Taking Too Long To Load
ive sent published flash animations from my home computer to the school computers so i can put them on my website. I transferred the .html files but they are taking too long to load.

Also when i try too enter them into frontpage, it says that the format isnt supported!

What do I do???

P.S im using flash 4 and the computer at school isnt slow, but yet it isnt loading

My Preloader Is Taking To Long To Appear
I am using loadMovie to load external swfs onto level 4.
they are all around 500k. each swf's preloader is on the main timeline of scene 1 while the rest of the animation is on scene 2. My problem is that the preloader does not show up for several seconds when I use
loadMovie("blank.swf",4); even with a fast connection
I am having this problem
does any one know how to make the preloader show up faster.

Preloader Taking Too Long.... Why? OH WHY? ... Anyone..? Please... ;)
Hi there... desperately looking for some help on this one.....

I'm working on this site for a band - it's been giving me major headaches.... now after about the 5th time of setting it up from scratch - it does take ages for the pop up window that displays the page to show the preloader.... it kicks in about 20-25%...

Does anyone know what I can do about this....?

Tried to set up 2 frames, bringing in the screen and background before the preloader - tried starting the preloader in the very first frame as normal - tried to set up a preloader for the preloader and failed miserably... :'(

If anyone could take a look and help me out here... that would be GREAT!!!

http://www.graphiceyedea.co.uk/redhed/update4
(the site is still work in progress, some preloaders still missing for the sections and sound to be added, apart from most of the content)

Thanks for listening....
Prisca

Taking Too Long To Publish The .swf
My problem: I developed a short movie in Flash MX 2004 Pro v 7.2, consisting of 6 scenes, one very similar to the other, in which only one scene contains tweened animation. Its actionsctionscript is very simple and the movie size is only 720 kb. However, when I want to test the movie or export it, it takes forever to be done; more than five minutes is my perception. I showed the .fla to a couple of people with more experience than me, and they could not find any visible problems with the code. I suspect it may be a bug in the program, but I have not found information to solve it. Can anyone give me some advice? I will greatly appreciate any help.
I uploaded the .fla in case someone wants to give it a look.
Gilberto

SWF Is Taking Really Too Long To Publish
Hi:

I'm working on a small flash game and I'm using AS2 Classes.
The game has virtually no artwork yet, but it takes about 2 minutes to publish, even if I haven't change any of the files. (I mention this because I understand Flash creates ASO files with the compiled classes and won't compile it again unless the .AS file is newer than the ASO file)

So, any ideas?
Which factors affect the time required to publish an SWF file?
One clue: the progress bar remains at about 95% during those 2 minutes.

Thanks,
JulianG

Streaming Mp3's More Than Once...what's Taking So Long?
I have my mp3 player set to stream audio. Because of this, I ran into the problem of having < 1 second of music play, then pause for a while, then actually begin to play fluidly. To prevent this annoying habit, I just stopped the mp3 immediately and made sure that a specified number of bytes were loaded before the song began to play:

Code:
s.stop();
_root.mc_player.onEnterFrame = function(){
if (_root.s.getBytesLoaded() > _root.minBytesToStart){
//_root.minBytesToStart = about 750000
_root.s.start();
_root.mc_player.onEnterFrame = null;
}
}
This seemed to solve the problem. A little bit later, though, I decided to make a circular loading animation for the time taken to stream the first x bytes of the mp3. This was easy enough. I just made some slight adjustments to the code and all seemed well.

Code:
_root.mc_player.mc_loading.rewind = false;
_root.mc_player.mc_loading.play();
s.stop();
_root.mc_player.onEnterFrame = function(){
if (_root.s.getBytesLoaded() > _root.minBytesToStart){
//_root.minBytesToStart = about 750000
_root.mc_player.mc_loading.rewind = true;
_root.mc_player.mc_loading.prevFrame();
_root.s.start();
_root.mc_player.onEnterFrame = null;
}
}
The first time through (meaning the first time I select each mp3), it works like a charm. However, when I click any of the songs a second time, the loading animation only lasts a second (meaning that _root.s.getBytesLoaded() > 750000), but the song doesn't play for 5-10 seconds later (the time it originally took to stream). So basically, one thing (s.getBytesLoaded()) is telling me that most/all of the song is already loaded, while the other (the streaming, I guess) is thinking that it needs the whole file still. I really don't have any idea what to do about this. Any ideas?

Taking Too Long To Load External MCs
ok I have a main movie (In this example it will probably load right up for you) but in the blue area at the top as well as the news and featured windows at the bottom take too long to load. Here's how the movies are broken down.
Main movie--> Blue area movie, (main.swf), news movie, and featured movie--->

inside blue area movie--->leftmain.swf and US swf

The last two don't load fast enough...is there a way I can preload it into the cache without using your conventional loader? maybe even have the html file preload it? please help!!!

File:
http://www.mmeentertainment.com/main.html

Exporting Taking A Long Time
When I export my flash site to preview it as I work, for some reason it takes a long time compared to all my other things I usually export. The size of the final .swf is only 84kb. Whats wrong? Thanks in advance.

[help] LoadMovie Taking Too Long To Load?
I have a question about the LoadMovie function. I currently have a swf movie with buttons (loaded dynamically).

When you click on a button it loads a specific movie(.swf) into a specific MC holder on the stage.

When I try this on my computer (locally) it works perfectly and its obviously fast loading. But when I load it up onto the internet and I click on a button it takes forever (I mean forever) to load.

Does this often happen? I'm using Flash 8

The largest .swf file size is about 30KB, so they are very small in size.

Is there a way to do a sort of preload of the smaller swf's while the main swf is preloading?

I would really appreciate some help!

Jpg Pictures Taking Too Long To Load
Hi everybody,

I have made an application in flash, which is more like a photo/video gallery, in it, an event(birthdays parties) can be selected and a scroller appears which contains the thumbnails of all the pictures of that event, and one video appears in another panel, basically one video per event(birthdays and parties) is supported.

My problem is that pictures are around 50, and there size can be around 2 MB, sometimes it happens that whole flash CS3 hangs, it is too difficlt to use the application this way...near impossible..

these pics are loaded dynamically through xml file and i have used loadMovieClip.loadClip() method to load pics to movieclips and loadMovieClip.onLoadInit() method to resize them to make thumbnail and the main picture in the gallery..

can anyone show me some way, so that i can make those pics load in less time, and application wont hang.....that would atleast make the app useable..

thanks alot..

[help] LoadMovie Taking Too Long To Load?
I have a question about the LoadMovie function. I currently have a swf movie with buttons (loaded dynamically).

When you click on a button it loads a specific movie(.swf) into a specific MC holder on the stage.

When I try this on my computer (locally) it works perfectly and its obviously fast loading. But when I load it up onto the internet and I click on a button it takes forever (I mean forever) to load.

Does this often happen?

The largest .swf file size is about 30KB, so they are very small in size.

Is there a way to do a sort of preload of the smaller swf's while the main swf is preloading?

I would really appreciate some help!

Movie Taking To Long To Start
Hi!

I have a preloader that is not working the way I wanted it to be.
I have this code in the first frame:

ActionScript Code:
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
total = getBytesTotal();
lidos = getBytesLoaded();
restantes = total-lidos;
if(total == lidos) {
gotoAndPlay(5);
}else{
barra._alpha = 100;}
porcentagem = Math.round((lidos/total)*100);
barra._xscale = porcentagem;
// * 2 ;
if (porcentagem == 100) {
gotoAndStop(5);
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
stop();

and on frame 5 I have a MC with this code to load a sound.swf file.

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent(load){
loadMovieNum("sound.swf",1)
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
percentloaded=Math.floor(_level1.getBytesLoaded()/_level1.getBytesTotal()*100)
percentdisplay=percentloaded + "%"
bbarra._xscale = percentloaded;
if(percentloaded == 100 && !initialized){
_root.gotoAndPlay(10);
initialized=true
_visible=false
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}

and I have two dynamic fields to show the percentage.One before frame 5 for the main movie and one inside that MC holding the last posted code to show the percentage of the sound file being loaded.

The problem is it is taking to long to go to the second preloader and the bars are being mixed up.

You can check it out at www.djchambinho.com please!

I need help please!

Music Is Taking Too Long Or Not Even Starting.Why?
Could You take a look at my project and see why the song is taking too long to start and how to solve this problem?

Now the dancer starts dancing as soon as the song starts.
The same code was used just put it on a frame and started her dancing inside the if(success).
but the songs dont start.

this is the code I am using on her MC:

onClipEvent(load) {
mp1._alpha = 100;
mp1.play();
mp2._alpha = 0;
mp2.stop();
soundurl = "plastic.mp3";
mySound = new Sound();
mySound.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){
this.start(0, 999);
}
}
mySound.loadSound(soundurl, false);
}

and Again my preloader does not work anymore even loading the sound externally.

PLEASE What should I do?
I've struggling in this project for 3 weeks and I cant get any help.

I've already made the girls starts dancing as soon as the song starts like said on the other topic.

Preloader Taking A Long Time To Show Up
Hello,

I use a preloader on this site:
http://www.oliverbarnes.com/ (click on "resume")

but it takes a long time to show up, to the point that on a dial up the user thinks the flash movie isn't loading at all. When the loader finally appears, it's already showing half the bytes loaded (it's got a total of 156K).

any ideas on why this happens?

by the way, any feedback on this flash site would be greatly appreciated (it's my first flash work)

thanks
Oliver

Link Page Taking +very+ Long To Load
hi!
i have a link (no javascript here, just 'geturl' and 'blank') on my flash site which takes AGES to load when i click on it. The new window appears but it's a blank page with no URL displayed in the location bar, and it takes close to 5 mins before the page loads up. it's basically a simple link to an html file (less than 5k in size) sitting within the same folder on the server.

it's not a server traffic problem cos when i access the html directly using the absolute path, it shows up instantly.

what could be causing the lag?

*BigJuicy*

Export Movie: Taking Too Damn Long
What are the factors that contribute to export time?
What can I do to speed things up when I'm trying to test a movie?

Thanks!

Text Ticker Taking Too Long To Load
i have a text ticker that reads from a text file and on my machine when I run it it comes up and displays the data when it is supposed to but when placed on the server it takes like 12 seconds to load. an example is http://www.longwood.edu/business/ the text ticker is down on the bottom right. Some machines it takes a long time to load and others it doesnt. Does anyone know anything about this or a way to fix it?

JCM3

Why Is My Dynamic Loading Taking So Long To Load The JPEGS?
I've got my flash movie to dynamically load a list of images from a text file and then randomly pick one and fade in... fade out... then pick another randomly and fade in... fade out... etc...

The problem is that it seems to be unusually slow to load over dial-up for the file sizes involved... The swf file is smaller than 2k and the 3 images are all under 25k. Not a very big download. If anyone could check it out and give me some ideas I'd appreciate it!

http://www.rantingsofthemad.com/resume/

flash file = header.fla
the webpage= resumesite.htm

The flash file is named "header" and you can take a look at the action script to see if there is something I can do to optimize it or if I might be better off going another way. I originally had imported the images, but the file size grew to over 224kb. Not very friendly for a dial-up... Thanks again!

Dynamically Loading Jpg Problem For The First Time... Taking Too Long
HI All,

I have made a tutorial where I am loading images and sound dynamically. I am getting the values from a xml file, storing in some variable and then loading the movie when the user clicks on some particular link.

My code is something like this :

_root.imgHolder_mc.img.loadMovie("images/" + myObj.Intro.Img);

myVar = new LoadVars();
myVar.load("images/" + myObj.Intro.Img);

myVar.onLoad = function (da) {
_root.tt.text = da;
}

_root.imgHolder_mc.onEnterFrame = function () {
this.temptext.text = Number(this.temptext.text) + 1;
this.loadedbytes.text = this.img.getBytesLoaded() / 1000;
this.totalbytes.text = this.img.getBytesTotal() / 1000;
if (this.loadedbytes.text == this.totalbytes.text) {
//_root.intro_mc.imgHolder_mc.loadedbytes._visible = false;
xsc = (250/this.img._width) * 100;
ysc = (150/this.img._height) * 100;
trace(xsc + " :: " + ysc);
if (xsc < ysc) {
this.img._xscale = xsc;
this.img._yscale = xsc;
} else if (ysc < xsc){
this.img._xscale = ysc;
this.img._yscale = ysc;
}
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}

It's taking too long to load the image... I mean to start loading the image.

You can take a look at the following url :

http://www.iacquaint.com/iclass/temp...oundPlay=false

Please tell me why this is happening so... If you go to this url just see some variable is increamenting... so the onEnterFrame is working fine.... Even the LoadVar is returning me true, means the image is there... but after a long may be when the variable is reaching around 100 the image loading starts.
Please help me out from this problem

Thanks and Regards

Amit

Taking On An Intro
Hiya guys!

I was thinking, when taking on an intro for ones site, what approach is the easiest?

If I were to make an intro, I'd go with one MC per layer in the main scene, then use a s***load of framelabels and telltargets. So one MC starts out, when it reaches a certain frame#, it triggers another MC... and so forth...

Movie Taking Long Time To Load, Needs To Load Faster
I am a loading several movies into level 2 of the main movie. The movie is taking up to 1.35secs to load. The issue is that the images are too big. Can I do something about the movie itself or do I need to compress the images more?

Long Download Time
I've just completed re-writing my webpage completely in Flash. This is my first attempt at using Flash. My problem is that the page takes 10 minutes to display. The file size is ~2.5 MB. That's about .5 MB less than the HTML version of my site which loads quickly on my 56K dialup.
Since this is my first attempt, I know I've missed something.
HELP?

site is http://www.questworks.org

Thanks!

Very Long Download Time
Hello there,

I just done a flash swf with 800Kb more or less and it takes forever to load.

This one is specially slow since with others bigger than this one I had no such problem.
I am assuming it has something to do with what's in it.

Ok it's basically a picture with a hand drawn mask on top of it.

The tricky bit is that the mask gets unfolded bit by bit and each bit is a shape! so I ended up with 300 frames and LOADS of shapes!

I thought about doing a stream or maybe a preload or maybe just force the flash player to play whatever it has downloaded up till now, because it's not doing that!

Any idea? thanks

FLV Progressive Download - Takes Too Long Too Start Going Crazy
I have a small, satirical website: http://www.quantummirage.com/CSFH/home.html

And each page has a .flv set to progressively download. On all of them, there is a long pause before the video auto plays (the length seems to be related to the file size). I know the video should be starting much quicker, can anyone help me?

thanks!

Cool Intro Scene Download From?
Hi i'm suppose to do a cool intro scene using either flash or 3dmax for my cd rom logo.. anyone know where can i download these intro scenes so that i can get ideas from?
Regards,
yen

~~I live to die and Die to Live~~

Skip Intro And Download Pluging Code? Newbie
hi folks

Does anyone know the little snippet of code i need to insert on my page so that

1. when the website visitor clicks the intro they get redirected to another page on my site?

2. If the visitor doesn't have flash installed it prompts them to download it from macromedia?

thanks
jc

thw wesite is at www.donnadirect.co.uk

Audio Download Link From Flash To Download Dialog
I am defining a URL to an MP3 file and then having a button use getURL onPress to open it. On my computer, this opens a dialog box to save the file.

However, on some computers, it opens the file in Quicktime in browser, I'm guessing just because Quicktime is configured to do so for them.

I want the link to always go to the regular save dialog box, so that it doesn't go away from my full screen Flash site, and so the user can download the file instead of just listening in browser.

Any ideas on how to do this, either by using a different link or a different method?

Flash Taking Over?
This is a simple question but I want enough feedback to make a informed decision in the future. While I think it is important to keep up to speed on multiple languages and techniques with web design, it seems as though a majority of the 'major' website's these days are being taken over by entire flash sites. So I guess my question is, should I concentrate my learning on Flash to keep up to speed with the industry or is this just a 'flashy' (no pun intended) time consuming, pricy solution for large scale sites? Everyone's opinion is of value..

Flash Taking Off
Hi, Will Flash ever take over from PHP, ASP etc? Will sites be taken over completely by flash? What are the disadvantages of using Flash on websites?

Taking Variables Into Flash
I have a movie which calls an xml file into the movie in this code

xml_file = "images.xml";

now i need a function that will take a parameter from the url that links to the page with my flash. and load the xml file accoding to this parameter.

If the parameter is 1 i want to load images1.xml and if it is 2 i want to load images2.xml how can i do that?

How can i pass the variable from URL?

[MX] Taking A Test In Flash
I haven't used Flash in a couple of years, but need to put together a test for our company. Our associates need to learn a long poem. So they need to be able to type in a line of the poem, and then the system verifies whether or not they are correct. Then they type in the second line and it verifies if it's correct. And so forth. If they are correct the system congratulates them, if they aren't correct then they need to type it in again with the system saying, try again. Is this possible to do? And if so, is there a tutorial on how to do it?

Thanks.

Taking A PS Layout To Flash
Okay, I'm going to cry, I didn't think it would be this hard.

I have this great layout in PS, all set to take into flash. Or so I thought. The first problem that occured to me was that because each layer of my layout had layer effects and transparency settings altered and all that good stuff, it depended on those other layers to keep its look! Obviously I couldn't take it into Flash without having the graphics the way they look, but without the extra stuff! So I managed to merge every layer with a blank layer, eliminating opacity settings and stuff but still keeping the look as if it was there! Effectively flattening all the layer effects, but not the layers, so the graphics were on separate layers and could be taken into flash separetly and animated in. Or so I thought.

I began trying to take some of the PS graphics into Flash, but it is extremely hard. I have to copy and paste it into another PS document, make it a gif. But the problem with that is each graphic has these nasty white edges!!! DARN IT!!

I don't know what to do, its a nightmare really, it is. How do you people do this!!!??

Flash Taking Up 100% Of The Web Page?
I am trying to use a flash background for my webpage. I got the layering and height,width = 100% working using div layers, but I can't get the flash to show up for the entire height of the site (only the first page)

http://work.mindplot.com/test/flashbg2/ There's what I mean. How do I get the flash to extend to 100% of the site?

Flash File & Taking It Into Another
Hi ppl,

I am really stuck could anyone help? Basically I have an applciation I have made and I create some of my elements seperate in another flash.fla file.

I tried to convert the whole thing to a movieclip to import into my flash application but this didnt work.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks,

Taking Flash Content
how to take a flash program in .swf format from other sites?

Taking A Screenshot With Flash...
Is there a way to take a screenshot using Flash? I don't mean take a screenshot of Flash, I mean a routine or function within Flash that would allow you to do this? Preferably something that could be called before the actual window was rendered, to grab the screen as it is just before the swf executes?

Dev environment is MX 2004, thanks.

-Michael

Who Is Taking The Flash Class SLCC
Just wanted to say welcome to the board.
PCRIDE_

Taking Html Files Into Flash
Does anyone know an easy way to take existing html files into Flash? I have a site that is all html with some Flash but I want to turn it all into a Flash site without losing some of the functions I have with java.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Deb

Taking An Image Map PHP To A Flash File
ok a friend of mine is trying to get
http://www.m3talc0re.com/temp/old_layout/tutorials/photoshop/toolguide.php

to a flash file. But he has no idea how to. or if it will just take a step by step. Suggestions would be greatly Appreciated!

Sounds Takes Two Long To Long.. Why?
I have some sound loading from an external file, I don't understand why it takes so long to load... www.janav.com.
If you check my website three of the albums have songs...
album 6,7,8 have sound attached... but when you click you have to wait few seconds for the sound... I want to make my sound to load as fast as
www.benwisch.com website.

Any suggestions..?
I am not using linkage nor action script to load the soung I only used this code ..
on (release) {
stopAllSounds(); //to stop all previous sound
loadMovieNum("PaulinaRubio_Paulatina.swf", 2); // to load the picture first
loadMovieNum("music/paulina_music.swf",3); // to load the sound after the picture..

}

should I being using action scripts instead (like the kirupa tutorial), will this load very fast.

One more thing, the song is like 2 megabytes... should I use part of the song and then loop it.??/

Any suggestions will be appreciated...

Thanks,

Jana