mp3s overloading CPU?

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arkrausehardie - 25 Jul 2008 20:52 GMT

We are building a music activity in flash that has lots and lots and lots of
little mp3 music files (8 to 40k) each, and when lots are being used, the
system starts to stutter and seems like the CPU on the local PCs are choking.
Tried reducing bit rate from 320 to 120 or even lower in some cases, also
stereo to mono. Wondering what else to do in compression or something else to
help relieve the stutter problem. Any suggestions? thx.

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ggshow - 25 Jul 2008 21:28 GMT

stereo to mono will not help,
bitrate can reduce to 80 or 96 and still have good quality,
but...

may be the way you load & play your mp3 files? you load "lots and lots and
lots" mp3 files at the same time into a swf? have you clear unused sound object?

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_E_ - 26 Jul 2008 20:38 GMT

Pay attention to loops. Do you use loops for loading the mp3s? Are there infinite loops in the scripts? Isn't the framerate too high? Too high will be above 36 fps.

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