[Mike Lacher]

I wish. It would make things much easier. Unfortunately, it’s totally covered by non-disclosure, so my putting piece of it online would result in a large amount of trouble.

The most detail on the videos I can give you is in terms of metadata, which I know is much less helpful than the genuine artifact. Also, I don’t know if I mentioned this, but the client generally experiences the most problems in the first 10 seconds of longer videos (over 1.5 min).

[Mike Lacher]

No problem. I figured something got mixed up.

Sadly, I already tried pre-comping some videos and of course the client tested and complained that the pre-comped ones were still jerky and the un-comped ones looked fine (heavy sigh).

Any other thoughts on optimization? I know I’m running out of options…

[Mike Lacher]

Thanks for the feedback.

Whenever I ask for tech specs of their machines, I just end up with more demands. They’re of the belief that this should run on every computer ever made. I’m positive it’s due to a slow machine. I’m just looking for any possible way to make it play a little better.

I don’t think it’s the 15fps thing. I suspected that at first too, but the clients say the beginning parts of some videos appear jerky then are fine. Many videos they think work fine. It’s just the long ones that tend to have “jerky” part.

Daniel, I didn’t quite get the last post. What video were you referring to in terms of it looking 24fps?

Am I correct in thinking that going with h.264 wouldn’t improve performance (I’d have to comp in all the backgrounds)? I haven’t dealt with the format much in Flash, but from what I understand it’s more CPU intensive than VP6.

Thanks again for everybody’s help.

-Mike