how to show flash animation on a website?

the switch · Post by **the switch** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:17 pm

ok I'v got a Lycos uk free website (with ads and stuff) and my animation workes with sound in flash

soooo

I thought I needed a server that is capable of hosting flash, (I'm no techie)

but first a question, the flash output that anime studio makes, is it streaming audio or not streaming? does streaming need a particular server

also

just to give more info, the flash file loaded from lycos and played, not from some browser backup file off of my computer, I watched it load in the browser

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:28 pm

Servers do not need to specifically support Flash. It doesn't use a special streaming protocol, it's just regular http. The files come out as "streaming sound," but that's not the same kind of "streaming" as rstp or other kinds of streaming that you're thinking of. Flash's "streaming" means that the audio is bound to the timeline, and that it doesn't play independently. An example of one of Flash's non-streaming sounds is "Event", which you may use to add sound to a button, that plays when you roll over or click on it. This sound plays without advancing on the timeline, for instance on a static menu page.

So you have nothing to worry about on Lycos.

the switch · Post by **the switch** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:40 pm

thanks touched, cool, I guess I was wondering if its streaming audio because the swf file is so small compared to the actual audio file imported into it. . . . hmmmm. . . cool