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Flash Screensaver is a Processor Hog
Hi there. I've created a Flash file that's been turned into a screensaver with a little application called Bitbull. The screensaver is working as it should, but the client is unhappy that it is not a fullscreen image.
My problem is that the graphics are large imported jpegs that fade in and out, and also have shapes and text moving on top of them. So at fullscreen, it is unacceptably choppy.
Is there anything I can do to improve this? I need someone to shed some light on this...what affects CPU usage, etc. I've looked at some other screensavers (I can provide URLs to download if you'd like) that have reasonably smooth motion and I'd like to know how they're achieving this. Does the software you use to create the screensaver affect its performance?
Thank you very much.
My problem is that the graphics are large imported jpegs that fade in and out, and also have shapes and text moving on top of them. So at fullscreen, it is unacceptably choppy.
Is there anything I can do to improve this? I need someone to shed some light on this...what affects CPU usage, etc. I've looked at some other screensavers (I can provide URLs to download if you'd like) that have reasonably smooth motion and I'd like to know how they're achieving this. Does the software you use to create the screensaver affect its performance?
Thank you very much.
Are you resizing your flash movie? post your movie x-size and y-size parameters.
You could increase the frame-rate of your movie file. By default it is at 12fps, which is choppy for large movies.
Bring it to 30fps or more, from the menu: Modify > Movie...
Bring it to 30fps or more, from the menu: Modify > Movie...
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I appreciate your thorough answer. Thanks! I guess I'm going to have to rethink the whole thing...probably by simplifying the graphics because I'm certainly not going to learn Delphi!
Heh, don't blame you mate. Glad I could give some pointers though.
If you need any more advice, give us a shout.
John.
If you need any more advice, give us a shout.
John.
try to convert into vector graphics.
That may help