From: Paul Hoffman (paul_at_cognetics.com)
Date: 18 March 1999
At 08:33 AM 3/18/99 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Ran across some interesting behaviors at home last night.
>If one interupts a streaming audio while in progress by
>using the Itinerary buttons to go to the next scene, the
>audio for that scene starts while the last one continues
>to run. Fun effect, but it also means that multiple streams
>can run simultaneously.
Yes, you can get any number of audio streams running at the same time, but the behavior you mention should not have happened. Load timing issues, I suspect, as the Itinerary buttons load a blank html file into the sound frame to stop the current audio, then the "Please Wait.." HTML loads all the correct files (including the new audio) into the proper frames. (The VRML, once it's running, replaces the "Please Wait.." message)
>If anyone is demoing this piece, do run it once on
>your machine and let everything that can cache cache.
>Smoother that way.
In some cases, it seems that IE4 is actually more stable than NC4.5. On my new system (PII 350mhz, Riva TNT w/OpenGL acceleration, T1 line), I get some inexplicable crashes trying to load some scenes in Netscape, but IE does fine.
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