Comments for Patrick McDonald

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Roosevelt

Roosevelt — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:38:09 +0000

Total n00b here! I have this problem but I am in a hosted enviornment (e.g. i don’t have the ability to turn off gzip). How do I fix this problem. Again total n00b here so if you can be detailed and I’d be forever in your debt!

Thanks in advance!

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by henry

henry — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:59:07 +0000

awesome job figuring out this issue, debugging this on a project of mine was a pain. thanks!

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Tech Gadget

Tech Gadget — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:07:23 +0000

Well it sounds very difficult to me.

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Flash : Pre-loading Issues « CrossFlight Studio

Flash : Pre-loading Issues « CrossFlight Studio — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:11:13 +0000

[...] was fine however. Now I was really confused. So I did a bit of research…Apparently, I’m not alone. The issue seeming stems from files being served up with GZIP compression before being sent to the [...]

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Marco

Marco — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:52:54 +0000

Yep, same here – THANK YOU!
(But IE8 still shows the bytes instead of the % – I’m on it…)

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Darkoleptik

Darkoleptik — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:44:15 +0000

You saved me dude !!!
i also found that you can disable server gzip compression using .htaccess file
http://www.flash-db.com/Board/index.php?topic=19252.0

Thanks bro for giving me clues on this issue ^^

Cheers from France !

Comment on Tweening to a Relative Position using a Variable in TweenMax by Manhattan

Manhattan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:46:46 +0000

Thanks for listing this. Being self taught in Actionscript, it’s really tough to know what tags are available for me without being told. I wouldn’t even thought there would be one for relative tweens.

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:39:36 +0000

Unfortunately, I’m not an Apache expert. I just asked the client to have their server admins fix it.

Try some searches for mod_deflate and mod_gzip. I think the gist of it is that when you configure one of these compression modules, you can add file types to an exclusion list, or you can specifically tell it what types to include in its compression.

The exclusion list will look something like this:

1 2	SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \ \.(?:gif\|jpe?g\|png\|swf\|flv)$ no-gzip dont-vary

If you can’t change it server wide, you can do it in a specific directory with an .htaccess file, but I’m not much more help there either.

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by flash begginer

flash begginer — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:54:09 +0000

hello,

I don’t speak English very well, sorry.

I have this problem but not sure how to turn off gzip.

can you help me?

I’m a begginer.

thank you

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:14:55 +0000

No problem, Josh.

Back in the day when they released the FLV file format, I had to configure IIS to serve these new videos with the video/x-flv MIME type. That’s why I used Charles to see what was up. And that showed the wrong MIME type along with the other discrepancy of the gzip in the Response Compression.

It seems like some people turn gzip on for everything thinking it will save bandwidth. But compiled SWF files are already about as compressed as they are going to get (the same goes for some image and video files I think). So you’re just wasting processing power/time to compress these files.