flash movie loading problem

[Ionutzvlad]

Hello, I currently work on a site

http://www.hoteltirol.ro

, and I have a problem when the flash movie is loading in the html window. It doesn't load the flash immediatly, but it goes blank and only a couple of seconds later it really loads the movie.
I've tried several loading bars, but none of them worked.
Do you know what can I do?
Thank you very much.
Ionut

 

[oldnewbie]

Are you talking about the initial download of your main interface movie, or of all the external ones loaded on demand afterwards?

 

[Ionutzvlad]

Thanks Oldnewbie for interest. I think that all of the movies have the same problem. But you can check it out yourself at

http://www.hoteltirol.ro

.
It seems the movies you load afterwards loads even harder. But also the main movie goes blank first.

Ionut

 

[oldnewbie]

Well it's not that bad on a fast connection, but might be on a slow one.

Noticed you don't have any color parameters in your object & embed tags... You could try adding a black background color in to see if it doesn't solve the problem...

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="[URL unfurl="true"]http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0"[/URL] width="700" height="350" align="absmiddle">
        <param name="movie" value="site1.swf">
        <param name="quality" value="high">
        <param name="SCALE" value="exactfit">
        [b]<param name=bgcolor value=#000000>[/b]
<embed src="site1.swf" width="700" height="350" [b]bgcolor=#000000[/b] align="absmiddle" quality="high" pluginspage="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"[/URL] type="application/x-shockwave-flash" scale="exactfit"></embed></object>

BTW, I profoundly dislike that "smooth" preloader (you most probably got on actionscripts.org. Although it is smoother on the initial download, it then re-appears each time a selection is made whether the file is cached or not, and for that, I dislike it!

 

[Ionutzvlad]

Well, the solution you gave me it's good, I've done it, but it's only a trick. It doesn't really solve the problem. At slow connections it still doesn't look that good. Any other ideas?
Thanks
Ionut