Re: FN-FORUM: Reloading Flash

date posted 18th January 2006 15:54

On 18 Jan 2006 15:51:32 -0000, Tam Denholm [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> On 18 Jan 2006 15:46:03 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> > just to clarify something with flash, when a flash file does that 1% - =
2%
> > >>>>>>100% loading thing is it reloading the file everytime it goes
> > thorugh this relaod process or is it just visual? If a 100k file is
> > loaded 10 time has 10000k worth of bandwidth been used?
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> I know nothing about flash but an educated guess would be that a 100kb
> file would take 100kb of bandwidth per download(give or take a few
> kb), its just downloading the flash file to be played on your
> computer.
>
> If your theory were true i doubt anyone would ever use flash.
>
> Tam
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A browser loads the Flash movie from its cache if it's available.

A preload routine in the first few frames of the movie is executed by
the Flash player as it loads, typically looping over three frames and
counting the number of bytes loaded into the Flash player and
displaying it as percent/bytes loaded. When bytes loaded equals the
size of the file it exits the loop and plays the rest of the movie.

So If it's retrieved from the cache the preload routine will still be
seen to execute but for a shorter time.

Steve