flash glitch/browser crasher - i'm stumped

[somethingelse]

hi,
i've posted this same problem at macromedia's site, and so far no brilliant solution, so i'm hoping that maybe one of the many professionals here might be able to help.

problem page (warning, your browser may crash and/or it may take a while to load):
www.4peopleskills.com/presskit/video.htm click "watch the video" OR
www.4peopleskills.com/presskit/bugplayer.htm


see the problem? works perfectly in when i "test movie" in flash (MX), and if i just play the .swf from windows explorer... but as soon as i try to access it from the website where it is supposed to be available, it gets all choppy & lousy, and crashes my browser.

ANY IDEAS would be appreciated. I'm stumped, WAY behind on this project and beginning to feel completely incompetent. I've tried everything, even the straight .wmv file doesn't work, and i've done this for many other clients with no problems...

working with flash MX, on winXPhome with 1.7ghz & 384 MB ram... this SHOULD work no problem.

thank you in advance!

[Sualdam]

Well, it went all choppy but it didn't crash for me.

When Flash movies do things like this, one of the first things to try is saving with a different filename and republishing (possibly clearing out the library of redundant stuff, too before you save/re-publish).

I occasionally have videos mess up on me and there is no way to fix it other than create a new movie and start again. It seems the FLA is just corrupted somehow. I don't know if this is your problem, but it definitely happens to me.

You may find that deleting big files from the library causes Flash to crash, so starting new is the only option (again, it happens to me sometimes).

[somethingelse]

thanks! that's the most helpful advice i've had in days! i've remade it a few times, re-imported the .wmv etc etc, but just overwritten the file itself... i'll try it with a new name.

cheers

[Sualdam]

Well, no guarantees, but good luck.

Saving with a different filename is a Macromedia solution to a number of issues.

I must admit that when working with videos there are a number of things I can do that will crash Flash every time no matter what.

One of them is deleting a large imported video from the library. It crashes whenever I do that, so I don't :)

Keep us posted on how it goes.

hello there....

i'm no flash guru but i use it extensively to design....i use video a lot too...and enjoy MX's video imporatibility ......

i think your dilemma is simple....your .swf is just way too long &, more importantly, uses way to much immediate RAM on any machine.....

the swf file itself....(i ran it directly off the bug.htm...not just in the jscript window that calls the same url from your homepage)

is over 14MB long (which is unforgiviable huge even for dsl) and requires an 89% download (most of which is the entire video clip inside the swf) as MX imports video kinda like "large keyframes" so the swf needs to cache it to run it.......this is also where your swf may have trouble....as you must do completely accurate math to make sure that the
frames of the movie clips imported "equal out" on your swf's main timeline frame count.....discrepancies in this will alwasy end up un what i call "chunky" play
also, if you view your .fla on the debugger you will see that the intro shape tween (w/ video clip included) uses so much RAM that it will freeze up a lot of PC's.......shape tweens eat a lot of computerbrainpower as they are...incorporate a video time line to drag too and this is a recipie for disaster.......

if it is necessary to use as long a video.....you should A) cut it into sceens/individual clips B) Use Sorenson Squeeze Codecs on the source files to optimizre them.....and then make individual swf's of all movie clips and then
call them inot levels using loadMovie actionscripts (and then subsequently unload them)

if you are at all interested....i posted to this flash forum a new big website i'm working on (that uses a lot of audio/visuals and/with flash......video imports, etc)
here's the url
http://www.webpageturner.com/test_dornasite

I have 4 video clips running at once in opening "dornavision" screen and it is only 430kb big.......
the biggest swf is close to 1MB on ABOUT page...but uses a stilframe as a preloader until the frames cache so d-load wait is not too noticable......
the 'web jukebox' calls swf tracks into levels upon playing and then unloads them as you switch tracks.......

also if you go to
http://www.webpageturner.com
there are other links to sites w/ lots of video/audio imports to flash
Security Impact Glass website and Sammypies website you may wish to check out

hope any of this helps...you cought me at a moment after my girlfriend made me two cups of strong coffee so i'm typing away 'cause she went to work and now I have no one to talk to ha ha lol .....(i work at home) .....hence this long response.

DAREN*&