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From: Brian Lisko on 18 Jul 2008 06:17
I have published a movie which compresses a sound. It works great in my ".dir"
but when published as a ".dcr" or ".htm", the compression does not work. The
publisher of the audioXtra said that shockwave may not be using the correct
information from the xtrainfo.txt file. Do I have to manually adjust any
settings to make the shockwave move behave like the ".dir" movie? Thanks for
any help on this problem - Brian.

From: Mike Blaustein on 18 Jul 2008 06:43
What is the specific problem? What do you mean that the compression
does not work? Does the sound not play? Is the file size larger than
you are expecting? Do you get any errors while publishing?

What sort of sound file is it (mp3, wav, swa, etc)? And how is it
compressed?
From: Brian Lisko on 18 Jul 2008 08:47
Using Audio Xtra 6.1, I record a ".wav" file. I can play and hear the sound in
both ".dir" and ".dcr". Audio Xtra 6.1 uses OGG compression to reduce the size
of the ".wav" file. In "dir", everything works great. As a ".dcr", everything
works great except when movie moves to the following code:

axSetEnvironmentInfo("useTempDirectory", 1)

-- Forces conversion to mono and maximum compression and prepare for
ShockFiler upload
dataToSend = axCompressToOggData ( currentWord , 1, 1)
-- the compressed sound is a much smaller ".wav" file

where currentWord is the name of the recording and dataToSend is the file
property which will be uploaded to server using ShockFiler Xtra.

In ".dcr", there are no errors produced. The other buttons in the movie
continue to work. I can compress in ".dir" but I cannot compress the sound in
".dcr". I think there is a Shockwave setting that is not responding proporly
to the xtraInfo.txt file which references the following for autodownload in
ShockWave:

[#namePPC:"Audio Xtra", #nameW32:"AudioXtra.x32",
#package:"http://download.tabuleiro.com/packages/Audio/61/AudioXtra"]
[#namePPC:"ShockFiler", #nameW32:"ShockFiler.x32",
#package:"http://download.tabuleiro.com/packages/ShockFiler/2/ShockFiler"]

Any help to get OGG Compression to work in Shockwave would be greatly
appreciated - Brian



From: Mike Blaustein on 18 Jul 2008 09:01
I am not too familiar with this xtra, but is it shockwave safe to use
that command? In general, shockwave does not have access to the temp
directory, and you need to do any sort of file manipulation in the
dswmedia folder.

I just had a cursory glance at the online docs for the xtra, and found
this which may be helpful...

--snip--

PRIVATE SOUNDS DIRECTORY

In Shockwave you must have a sounds directory specified before you can
record audio files. In authoring or projectors you can specify any path
for a recorded sound and load files from any path. If you decide to use
a sounds directory in authoring or projector for convenience you can
either set the path to the sounds directory using axSetEnvironmentInfo
("soundsDirectory") or you can prompt the user for the path using
axPromptForSoundsDirectory.

In Shockwave, there are two options: the first is to prompt the user for
the path using axPromptForSoundsDirectory. The second option is to set
the environment option "useDswMediaDirectory" to TRUE, and Audio Xtra
will automatically detect and use the DswMedia support folder for your
Shockwave player installation. This option was introduced in version 5.1
of Audio Xtra.

In both cases you cannot set or query the "soundsDirectory" property
using axSet or GetEnvironmentInfo, for security reasons. The path to the
final sounds directory is stored internally and only available to Audio
Xtra. The Shockwave movie can only work with files in the sounds
directory. This applies to recording, playback and sound conversion.
From: Brian Lisko on 18 Jul 2008 09:11
An additional note, the code in this button will stop working on the line which
contains the axCompressToOggData in Shockwave. The following lines of code
upload the sound - which works in the ".dir" - Brian.

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