OK... after much testing and quite a bit of chagrin, I have exhausted all my
options with flash animations that include streaming sounds on the root
timeline.
I have tried:
the soundKeepDevice = false
the soundMixMedia = false
all flash sprites directToStage = false
After some simplification of code and a little voodoo magic, director isn't
crashing constantly in that one location anymore (most likely to video
issues), but I can replicate the stuttering problem far too often for my
comfort. However, on some machines, it is nearly impossible to recreate the
issue, including my development and testing machines. So far, all reported
instances of the issue have occured on WinXP or Win2K PCs with specs that
range the gamut from mom&pop home computers to high-end video workstations.
I am using the newest flash and text xtras provided for download at the end
of last month on the macromedia website. Without any luck.
The stuttering only occurs in flash that has stream sounds on the root
timeline. If I go to a section that has no sound, animation works fine. I
have also set the debugPlaybackEnabled on the latest build and after
recreating the problem used the message window to try to jumpstart the
flash...
I can grab the root timeline of the flash sprite using
getVariable("_root",false) just fine, and I can see individual objects in
the sprite's objectList. I can even move the frozen animation to another
frame and see it updated in director, but regular play() or gotoandplay()
comands do not work. For all intensive purposes, the flash playback is
frozen in a particular frame, even though flash is still registered as
'playing'. Using gotoandPlay to go to the last frame of the flash movie,
where the stream sound is over, the animation resumes. I guess the only
option at this point is to remove the audio from flash and play it through
director.
I would submit this to the buglist, but it is so difficult to reproduce I
doubt it would warrant a follow up. If I can get time (after I retrofit my
whole project), I will attempt to create a file that reflects this
behavior...until then, is there any more voodoo magic I can try out that I
may not be aware of?? :0)
Many thanks,
Mathew
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