Further tests of the 'prepare' command are STILL confusing. My initial tests were on a Mac (see below), but on a Windows 98 PC, the prepare command STILL seems to actually play the audioClip, rather than silently load the audioclip into memory, as I'd expected. When a series of 'prepare' commands are played in a repeat loop, only the last is audible. However, that seems to occur because the successive 'prepare' commands are interrupting each other, because inserting 'wait until the sound is done' between the 'prepare' commands makes all of the sound audible. Regardless of which method I use, however, playback latency of the 'prepared' audioclips is still erratic, even on fairly fast PC. It's worse on an older Mac.
I must be misunderstanding something. Is this really how the 'prepare' command is intended to work? Can someone clarify how the 'prepare' command should be used? Let me add another question: Can one sound be loaded with the 'prepare' command, while another is playing? Thanks again! Scott Saults >My initial tests of the 'prepare' command are confusing, however, The >'prepare' command actually PLAYS THE SOUND (at least on a Mac)! This >surprised me because it seems illogical, considering this command >would, I think, usually be used to load a sound, only to play LATER. >Adding 'play stop' or 'play pause' did not reliably prevent at least >part of the sound from playing. I haven't yet tried turning on and >off the sound volume, but this shouldn't be necessary. > >If I can get this 'prepare' to work silently, I will test it further. >Can more than 1 sound be buffered this way. Should it work the same >for imported and external audioclips? > >Thanks again. > >Scott Saults > >>At 12:01 PM -0500 1/14/02, Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> >Again, first you should try the "prepare" command, it will buffer >> audioClips >> >before playback. Let me know if that works for you? >> > >> >Kevin _______________________________________________ improve-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/improve-revolution
