[Laszlo-dev] media formats supported by SOLO (swf 7 / 8) ?

[Henry Minsky]

I think people are expecting to point at an mp3 file on their server (or an
external server with proper crossdomain.xml permissions) and get it streamed
over to them. The question is what file format or formats will the work for?

On 11/29/05, Cortlandt Winters <cortrah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Of course if it's in solo mode, does the file even get tagged? I was
> assuming that it would get added to the library with a tag even if it were
> just a reference to an external file, but I realize now that this might not
> be the case. If so, I'd like Gilda Radner to say"nevermind" for me.
>
> :D - Cort
>
> On 11/29/05, Cortlandt Winters <cortrah at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I haven't tested this in laszlo, but the player is supposed to support
> > this at least as of flash player7, since the player just recently bumped up
> > from 5 to support 6,7 and 8 output I wouldn't be surprised if there was a
> > bug mismarking the tag of a newly accepted type of sound with that of an
> > older format or a streaming sound as an event sound. If so, that might be
> > easily fixed and may be worth checking for.
> >
> > The swf7 file format documentation describes the player accepting sample
> > rates of 5512Hz, 11025Hz, 22050Hz and 44100Hz in both stereo and mono.
> >
> > (pseudo quoted)
> > The DefineSound tag defines event sounds and includes the sampling rate,
> > size of each sample( 8 or 16 bit) a flag for stereo or mono and an array of
> > audio samples. The data is flagged with 0 or 3 for uncompressed raw samples,
> > 1 if compressed with adpcm, 2 if compressed with mp3  in swf4+ and 6 if with
> > Nellymosser asao in swf6+
> >
> > Streaming sounds are different and have a SoundStreamHead or
> > SoundStreamHead2 tag before the first data block.Then there are a series
> > of subdivided frames for the streaming sounds like with mp3, it may be that
> > you're mp3 is being tagged as an event sound.
> >
> > http://www.notebookmargins.com/ref/flash_file_format_specification.pdf has
> > the details around page 148 with the details of mp3 compression on 151
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > I've been quiet lately but I'm trying to keep up with all the changes. I
> > Love the work you guys are continuing to do.
> >
> > -Cort
> >
> > On 11/29/05, Jim Grandy <jgrandy at laszlosystems.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > The information isn't very well organized or necessarily complete, but
> > > there is a wiki page for this sort of thing. We should amend and improve
> > > this page to answer questions like this.
> > > http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/MediaSupport
> > >
> > > jim
> > >
> > > On Nov 29, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Henry Minsky wrote:
> > >
> > > Someone on the forums asked this question. Did we ever get a complete
> > > list of supported SOLO media formats? What about
> > > proxied media formats?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/community/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4751
> > >
> > >  *Supported resources in SOLO mode* Hello,
> > >
> > > In SOLO mode, it's only possible to use format that a flash player can
> > > read. that is to say: mp3, swf, jpg and since the version 8 of flash : png
> > > (and a more of jpgs options).
> > >
> > > My problem is that I can't use a mp3 resource in SOLO mode : I think
> > > the problem comes from encoding options : 96kbps, stereo, 22kHz.
> > >
> > > Is that true? So, my request is: where can I find the list of the
> > > avaible resources in SOLO mode with all their specificities (compression,
> > > option, etc.)?
> > >
> > > thanks a lot,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Henry Minsky
> > > Software Architect
> > > hminsky at laszlosystems.com
> > >
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--
Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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