[stupid dog]

Wondering if anybody has any experience with this?

I'm loading this Flash presentation on the web for this company. I had to 'rip' the swf's off of their CD to make them into fla files to make some web edits (in case you're wondering - the company that produced this CD won't give them the fla files)

There is a music/voice narriation throughout. In the fla file, the audio track shows as MP3 stram sound 44k hz mono 16 bit

When I listen to the track in the fla (hit edit next to the 'effect' and press play) sounds fine, just like on the CD

However, when I publish this as a swf (I'm using v8) the audio track sound bad. Like it's in a garbage can. Kinda echos a bit, thin sounding. I checked the publish settings, changed the audio quality to 'best' still no diff.

Does anybody know if audio usualy degrades in a swf as compared to the fla source? Or anything that is normaly done for quality audio?

BTW, I used a demo version of Etima, so action scripts didn't come down. For the web presentation, this doesn't matter, unless there is some sort of script that controls audio? Not sure on that.

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[pp917]

Yes, I've had that problem, and I don't think it's limited to swf publishing either. In my case, I was publishing a .mov, and the sound came out like garbage (even though the mp3 used in the .fla was flawless). For me, I just rendered out the animation without sound, then combined the sound with the animation in Acid.

pp917

it might also be worth mentioning that I'm not a flash expert, so maybe there's a better way

[stupid dog]

The problem was the bit rate. It was set at 16. Changing to 64 or higher on the publishing settings cured the problem. I set it at 128, and checked to stay in 'mono' Sounds fine now