Thanks Terry I'll use your advice.
Best Regards
George
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Από: Terry R. Schussler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Αποστολή: Κυριακή, 3 Σεπτεμβρίου 2000 8:05 μμ
Θέμα: Re: <lingo-l> Sound files
> At 3:49 PM +0300 9/3/00, George Panagiotakopoulos wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Iam doing a project on Heat engines. I have made 10 .dir files with
200-400
> >frames per file.
> >At every file there are about 5-7 sound members (wav format, 22050,16bit,
> >mono) with narration approx 1MB every file. I made these files internal
and
> >every file begin with a puppetsound lingo code. At some wav files I use 1
or
> >2 cue points.
> >So every .dir file is about 10 MB large
> >
> >I plan to make a projector with a start.dir file and I keep the 10 .dir
> >files external from the projector
> >
> >Because I don't have experience for the distribution of this project, I
have
> >two questions:
> >
> >a) Should I keep the sound files internal or should I keep them external
and
> >call them with a sound playfile command, in order to make the .dir files
> >smaller?
>
> If you are using Director 7, I would recommend that you link the sound
> files into sound castmembers. This will enable Director to "stream" the
> sound from disk during playback. Alternatively, you will be forcing
> Director to load the entire sound member's data into RAM before beginning
> playback. This will take a lot of RAM and put a delay into the start of
> the sound playback.
>
> If you are using Director 8, then you can either leave the sound files
> external or import them completely. It will make little difference so
long
> as you use the new sound object features to play your sound. Instead of
> calling puppetSound to get the sounds to play, you should use code like
> this:
>
> voSoundObject = (sound 3)
> voSoundObject.setPlayList([ [ #member : (member "firstVO") ] ] )
> voSoundObject.play()
>
> >
> >b) When a sound file ends releases the memory that had been used by it?
>
> If you are using Director 7, the sound file's data is streamed in about
40K
> chunks as I recall. That may have changed with D8.
>
> In either case, the sound data should be released from RAM when you close
> the movie containing the sound member _as long as_ you are not actively
> playing the sound. I.e. as long as you are not playing the sound as you
> call "go to movie" to jump to the next movie.
>
> Regards,
>
> Terry
>
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