Re: [Swftools-common] Re: stereo sound(track)

[Russell Lyons]

Hi, Chris.

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Chris Pugh wrote:

> Russ,
>
> > On 13 July 2010 16:48, Russell Lyons <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Let me answer the various questions in order.
>
> > > Do you really have to combine your soundtrack ( wav/mp3 ) and the video
> > > swf into one large file??   Would it not be better to load/stream/control
> > > them independently?  Might make life a whole lot easier.
> >
> > I would like to combine them in order to then create other formats (such
> > as flv). However, that is not necessary. I don't know how to control
> > playback of both sound and video simultaneously.
>
> flv playback is not straightforward.  You'll need the Adobe flv component.
> Would it not be better to take advantage of some of the Open source
> players out there, and simply embed them?

Indeed, I already use FlowPlayer, which is great, but it does require
some format other than swf. Perhaps you mean a flash player. But in any
case, if I want to upload to YouTube, I need to combine them. However, I
may not understand what you mean by "embed" here.

> > > You can't mix frame rates in the root movie.   Master takes precedence.
> >
> > I don't think I tried to. There was only 1 frame rate (only 1 video).
>
> I was referring to swf combination with swfcombine.

Yes, so was I.

> > You can see what I made at
> > http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdlyons/rw/ustpeano.html with explanations and
> > other formats at http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdlyons/rw/rw.html
> > I did not use swftools for any of this, though I'd like to.
>
> Very unteresting.  For which bit do you wish to use it?

Sorry; I meant I would have liked to have used swftools for the swf file
there in http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdlyons/rw/ustpeano.html . I would still
like to use them for the future. Note that the key feature is that the
sound is stereo and is synchronized with the video; both can be paused
and re-started (simultaneously) at will by the viewer.

> If you want to have a play with some musings on sound playback
> with swfc, here you go,
>
>   http://www.nordberg.me.uk/swfc_samples/

Thanks, they were quite interesting. For just the sound, it might work
well, but his methods might not be precise enough to work with video and
sound together.

> > Finally, I don't know ActionScript, so wouldn't know how to use
> > attachSound.
>
> Practice? ;o)   Take a look at the examples mentioned above.  I've

It's not that it's beyond me, just that the value of this project is
less than the value of the time it would take to learn ActionScript.

> Then again, maybe you are trying to use the wrong tool(s)?  There
> are plenty of general video editing tools out there that give you
> more flexibility. Random links below,

I looked at those, but did not see any that would work. I've looked in
the past, too. But thanks for the suggestions. There are a lot of neat
tools out there.

Best regards,
Russ