yeah! the sound is fine!
and at least macromedia is consistent. releasing bug fixes for one
version not as a patch, but in the next paid version. first happened
with 6.5 as i recall. kinda insidious, if you ask me.
no offense to the fabulously helpful former MM employees who are on this list...
--bh
Buzz Kettles wrote:
>
> Irv's correct - this was addressed in d8.5
>
> And please note:
>
> It wasn't a SOUND bug -
>
> It was a LOADING bug, that became most obvious while playing a sound,
> because we humans are so sensitive to sound gaps because sound is
> continuous media.
>
> *a guy who's sick of sound taking the blame*
>
> -Buzz
>
> At 1:50 PM -0700 6/26/01, Irv Kalb wrote:
> >You probably don't want to hear this at this late stage in your
> >production cycle, but ...
> >
> >There was a bug in D8 dealing with sound breaking up when Director
> >loads large graphics. (I ran into this exact problem on my current
> >project.) The fix was to upgrade to Director 8.5 I was able to
> >upgrade my whole project without introducing any new problems, so
> >for me, this worked fine. I don't know if you want to go that route.
> >
> >Irv
> >
> >At 11:12 PM +0300 6/26/01, Pekka Buttler wrote:
> >>Hi all... again
> >>
> >>You can tell I'm nearing the finishing stages of my current project by the
> >>fact that I have posted more "help me" messages than usual.
> >>
> >>D8 W2000, Duron800, 256 ram, Soundplaster 128PCI
> >>
> >>Anyway, the situation is this. I have a sound (wav, 22, 16, mono, preloaded)
> >>playing in channel 1. The sound is a loopy background thingy...
> >>
> >>At one specific point, depending on user interaction I'm updating the
> >>background image with member("bgimage").filename = ... Now admittedly, the
> >>image is quite large (Jpg, Optimized huffman 100, 800 X 600 X 24bits). and
> >>everytime I load a new image, the sound in channel 1 (i have no other sounds
> >>playing so it might be channelnum independent) cracks, agonizingly clearly.
> >>
> ><snip>
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