Date: 11/28/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, web

I'm using Sorenson Squeeze Compression Studio on a Mac for some video encoding. Using the ON2 VP6 compressor (as opposed to the Sorenson Spark), I'm encoding movies into Flash for playback on the Web.

That's not the problem.

The problem is that I find the movies to be stuttering (frame rates dropping) as the movie plays on. When I encoded them, I opted to allow frames to drop to keep the audio going, so that is to be expected. What I'm not getting is the concept behind the flash architecture that would cause the stuttering.

Why?

Because I'm viewing these locally before they go live; so I know it's not a bandwidth issue. I've adjusted the data rate to a respectable 400 kilobits/sec.

It may be the computer I'm playing it back on (AMD 1.4Ghz, 1GB RAM), but I'm wondering if there is a fundamental way Flash uses a web browser for display that is causing my encodes to bottom out.

Thanks all!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1189479.html