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Show Streaming Bug

Since Macromedia Flash 5, it has been possible to view your flash movie stream into the player, at different bit-rates, using the Show Streaming Option in the Flash Authoring Player, found in the View menu.This makes it possible to see what your website viewers will see when they visit your website on their varying sized bandwidth pipes, 14k, 28k, 56k etc….. obviously it isnt exactly accurate, because your website viewers connection speeds will fluctuate, but it will give you a good idea. In Flash MX, you can now export your flash movies compressed, using GZLib compression, which further reduces the filesize of .swf files which contain lots of text and actionscript. Unfortuneatley the Show Streaming option doesnt cater for this further filesize reduction, therefore it is now even less accurate!



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