How to preload sound files

[Klaus Major]

Hi Peter,

> Thanks!  I'm not familiar with SMIL.  I will have to check into  
> this and run some tests.

then you should download my little "mk_libsmil1" stack, that will  
create a SMIL file on the fly for you
and then check if the performance is better...

Get it from my homepage <http://www.major-k.de/xtalke.html> or via  
Rev online (klausimausi :-)

> In playing some more, my interleaved players do a better job on a  
> network.  With a single player, it took 34 almost 35 seconds to  
> play a string of 10 files.  With 2 interleaved players, it took 23  
> seconds, since the one player was loading the next file while the  
> other was playing the previous file.

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de