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CHAPTER 4
Working with Sound, Video,
and Images
This chapter describes how to incorporate sound, video, and external images in your
Macromedia Flash Lite application.
This chapter contains the following topics:
About sound in Flash Lite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using device sound (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using native Flash sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using device video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Loading external images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
About sound in Flash Lite
Flash Lite 2.0 supports two types of sound: standard (native) Flash sound and device sound.
Native sounds are played directly by the Flash Lite player, just as they are in the desktop
version of Flash Player. With some exceptions, you can use native sounds in your Flash Lite
application as you would use them in a Flash desktop application. For more information
about using native Flash sounds, see “Using native Flash sounds” on page 55.
Device sounds, in contrast, are played directly by the device, rather than by the Flash Lite
player. Some examples of device sound formats include MIDI or MFi, but supported sound
formats vary from device to device. To use device sounds, you can either bundle them in the
published SWF file, or you can load external sound files from a network location or the
device’s local file system. Device sounds have some limitations that don’t apply to native
sounds. For more information about using device sounds, see “Using device sound (Flash
Professional only)” on page 48.