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October 6, 2011
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Flash 11 and 5.1 sound

  • October 6, 2011
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Hello,

Question is what is the easiest way of creating and playing 5.1 sound with flash 11?

- Which formats are supported by flash 11: aac, dts, wma professional and/or other?

- Which of the supported formats is cheapest to create without spending a fortune on patented encoders?

- Recommended 3rd party software for creating the soundchannels? I know adobe premiere and others but usually too heavy, I just want the different sound channels.

- Does flash cs4 support 5.1 soundformat files that can be exported to swf that later can be played in flash 11?

I suppose that's it

Thanks!

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Correct answer robert_kwon

Hello,

      Unfortunately, we don't support multi-channel audio in Flash 11 for the Desktop and Mobile versions of the Flash Runtime.  This is only supported in AIR for TVs. 

     Flash Player 11 on the desktop supports the following codecs: ADPCM, MP3, and AAC.  AIR for TV will support a wider range of codecs for multi-channel support such as

     PCM, ADPCM, MP3, PCM BigEndian, NellyMoser 16kHz mono, NellyMoser 8kHz mono, NellyMoser, G711A, G711U, AAC, Speex, MP3-8kHz, and Device Sound.  I'm not sure which of the formats is the cheapest to create, but I would recommend encoding with either Flash Media Encoder or Adobe Premiere.  Those are the only 2 pieces of software I have experience using.  Sorry, but I don't know the 3rd party software enough to give you advice on that.  I don't know if Flash CS4 supports the 5.1 sound format files.  That question might want to be directed to the Flash Authoring team instead.

I hope this info helps you out.

-Robert


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robert_kwonCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
October 7, 2011

Hello,

      Unfortunately, we don't support multi-channel audio in Flash 11 for the Desktop and Mobile versions of the Flash Runtime.  This is only supported in AIR for TVs. 

     Flash Player 11 on the desktop supports the following codecs: ADPCM, MP3, and AAC.  AIR for TV will support a wider range of codecs for multi-channel support such as

     PCM, ADPCM, MP3, PCM BigEndian, NellyMoser 16kHz mono, NellyMoser 8kHz mono, NellyMoser, G711A, G711U, AAC, Speex, MP3-8kHz, and Device Sound.  I'm not sure which of the formats is the cheapest to create, but I would recommend encoding with either Flash Media Encoder or Adobe Premiere.  Those are the only 2 pieces of software I have experience using.  Sorry, but I don't know the 3rd party software enough to give you advice on that.  I don't know if Flash CS4 supports the 5.1 sound format files.  That question might want to be directed to the Flash Authoring team instead.

I hope this info helps you out.

-Robert


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