Flash Support - Sound?

[tedbell]

Is there any sound support for Flash files on the wiz? I've tried exporting using RAW/MP3/ADCMP/SPEECH, but nothing plays. Flash games with sound, such as critter crossing, are also lacking sound when played on the wiz.

It seems to be a limitation of the flash interpreter on the WIZ. I wonder if there are any plans to enhance that. I can slap together flash projects easily using AS2.0, but anything else would be a huge learning curve.

 

[sam fisher]

IIRC sound must be in the form of OGG files. Have you tried that?

 

[tedbell]

Flash 10 does not support OGG files. But when flash exports, it only has options for RAW, ADCMP or MP3, so it is doing a re-compression at the time of delivery.

 

[sam fisher]

Hmmm, this is quite peculiar. I know nothing of flash myself but a long time back I did ask them about the lack of sound in flash movies and they then told me that I should use OGG files.

You mention Flash 10, I didn't think the Wiz supported that?

 

[tedbell]

Hmmm, this is quite peculiar. I know nothing of flash myself but a long time back I did ask them about the lack of sound in flash movies and they then told me that I should use OGG files.

You mention Flash 10, I didn't think the Wiz supported that?

You can compile for any version. Compiling to Flash8 creates a usable program, but lacking sound.

 

[StarG]

[let me ressurrect this]

Most of the flash's i tried yet are completetly missing sounds. A few however do have sound like this one here:

Flashgame

(note that it seems to play only the title music)

With a flash decompiler i had a brief look into the Flash. Its scripts are wholly encrypted with a obfuscator but it doesnt stop the wiz's flash player. So far so good. The title sound is mp3, encoded in 44kHz & 16bit afaik @128kbit. Other sounds and music with far less resolution & sample rate. And see: they're not playing too.

I'm silently assuming there are eighter some decoding restrictions (e.g. some specific bitrate/sample rate/resolution) so its quite picky or
it supports only a subset of the possibilities to play sound using flash api's.

The definitive answer just would come from GPH itself. I think they're using eighter the FlashLite Developing Kit (containing full linux source, but still has propriertary license) or used a company's service to have the player ported. If i'd knew whom to contact about this i'd start asking.

 

[sbock]

Very interesting find! You can try to contact Tony Han from GPH. Or you can ask Orkie about it, I think he has contact to GPHs firmware coder...

 

[sam fisher]

Hmmm, doesn't the Wiz not like 22kHz or something? Could this be the issue?