Flash File Size

[petek]

Is there any info on flash file sizes and down load time. My designer says it is a non-issue because it is streaming. We are designing our site for 28.8k modems and wish to keep load time to a minimum. Is there any Flash best practice documents available. the file size in question is 140K including audio.

thanks

 

[blended]

Your designer is wrong. Open the file, and (on a pc at least) press ctrl+enter and view bandwidth profile. Click view streaming and then see how it works. Also, in the debug part, choose your modem settings. You can't stream anything faster than a modem will download it. You'll skip frames at best, and freeze up at worst waiting for that next frame to load. 140K could be bigger than you think depending on how cpu intensive the playback is. This is what good construction in flash is all about. Streaming just means you start playback immediately without making the whole thing load up first. If you need any help, just ask. There's loads of it here.

good luck,

blended

 

[oldnewbie]

IMHO 140kb ain't a big file! Adding a preloader would be my suggestion, to allow the download time (which can't be that long for this size... even on a 28K connection) and offer an ininterrupted viewing afterwards. Shockwave does it this way all the time... and it works! BTW, once downloaded, subsequent replays are not streamed but played as if they were local files, ie ininterrupted!

;-)