I've got course lectures of around 100mb in .swf form. After awhile, the player is using all free memory and eventually I get a red screen and have to quit and restart. Happens on embedded and a non macromedia standalone flash player.

Is there any fix for this?

1/17/2009 5:28:08 PM

Yes, play them with another player.

1/17/2009 7:24:15 PM

The format creator and a third party are both memory hogs. Just what other program do you suggest smart guy?

1/18/2009 12:00:51 AM

Flash is a known memory hog.

a) why would anyone make lectures as swfs?
b) convert them to another friendly format.
c) make sure you've got the most up to date version of flash installed, and avoid playing it in IE, Firefox tends to be a little (but only a little) better at not shitting the bed with large flash files.

1/18/2009 3:23:51 AM

while ff doesn't crash as much on flash, half the time flash doesn't even load properly for me in it.

1/18/2009 3:26:52 AM

try a different version

1/18/2009 4:12:22 AM

^^^,^^Use chrome, at least then your other tabs will be semi-safe from its wrath.

1/18/2009 7:20:02 AM

computer specs?

1/18/2009 12:08:23 PM

4400+ X2, 4gb ram, Quadro FX 3500

I got ahold of Sothink which does conversions and I see no way to do any type of conversion that isn't real time. Was hoping for something I could do like a dvd shrink type of conversion where it would take a few minutes.

Oddly enough, the converted I have uses much less memory even while converting than the other players I have. So I might just use the converter in play only mode.

[Edited on January 18, 2009 at 12:28 PM. Reason : .]

1/18/2009 12:28:20 PM