Flash and Safari Browser

[billybolsa]

Quick question. I notice that when i play files on my windows laptop in Safari that the sound is delayed. Does anyone know how to fix this and why this happens?

[ukla]

Are your sounds being loaded externally? Is there always a delay?

 

Safari stinks anyhow.

[billybolsa]

yes they are external and all the sounds are delayed but just in that browser. When i play it in explorer or Firefox there is no problem.

[ukla]

Can you post it somewhere so that I can take a look at it in Safari?

 

So even after the sounds are fully loaded, you still get delays? Strange indeed. What else is going on in the Flash movie?

[billybolsa]

sure, its not complete but you can go to www.e-bizdesign.com/wedding.

[ukla]

Checked it out in Safari. Yes, there is a delay. But I had the same delay in FF. I couldn't open the page at all in IE7.

 

You are streaming the audio correct? If so you can't really control when the audio starts playing - especially since you are loading up the audio in addition to the other elements in the flash movie.

 

You can certainly tweak the audio file - vary the quality settings and see if it helps.

 

Do some searching on flash audio - too many options / stategies to discuss here.

 

All things considered, I don't think that you have an issue. The delay really isn't bad and it isn't like the audio is timed to anything graphical on the site. I

[billybolsa]

Thanks, i'm not too concerned about the song, I was more concerned about the sound of the buttons in the photo gallery and when the man page transitions in and out, that's were i had the problem. You may have to turn off the player to hear it better. I don't have problems with safari on my Mac but on my PC i did. I have noticed other variations with it before too.

 

Thanks for looking at it, i appreciate it!

[ukla]

Oh ... my bad.

 

In FF and Safari, the gallery buttons trigger the sound without delay. Granted, the sound doesn't go "beep" exactly on roll over but I'd have to see the code b/c maybe you have the "beep" triggered at a particular point in the button transition. Regardless, there is nothing different between FF and Safari on my machine (Windows XP - Safari 3.0.4). Maybe the button sound itself needs to be edited. For example, maybe the sound is 3 seconds long and the first second doesn't actually have sound. Make sense?

[billybolsa]

yes it make sense, Ill take a look at it there might be a small delay that i probably never noticed. Thanks again.