Director Shockwave
Capability |
Rating |
---|---|
Browser compatibility and percent of browsers with Plug-in |
Fair. |
Interactive sound design capabilities |
Excellent. Technology is designed to compress multimedia files as well as create them with advanced Lingo scripting. Advanced button rollovers, transitions, sound effects, loops, audio synced to animation, scriptable fade-ins and fade-outs, and more. |
Software cost for encoding and streaming |
$900+. Must purchase Director to export Shockwave files. Format does not require dedicated server. |
Level of documentation and support |
Good. |
Audio encoding and content generation |
Easy. |
Audio authoring and delivery |
Hard. Director is a powerful multimedia authoring environment that takes time to master. |
Audio fidelity and compression |
Excellent. Shockwave audio files compressed with the MPEG codec in Director sound great. |
Low-bandwidth performance |
Poor. Shockwave files often drop out if a userâs bandwidth fluctuates. Shockwave and Flash audio streaming works best for users with 56 Kbps or DSL modem speeds. |
Server performance and quality of software tools for large-scale streaming |
Poor/FairâHTTP Pseudo-Streaming. The Director Shockwave format does not support large-scale broadcasting. |
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