Loading .oggs Really Slow!

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Will (Posted 2005) [#1]

I'm finding it really slow to load my game music in .ogg format. The files are fairly small. Is it normal that on every computer, Mac or Windows, it seems to take forever to load the .ogg files? Loading pngs the same filesize seems to be loads faster. Is there anything I can do to my files to speed this up? Its pretty horrid to have to make players wait so long as the music loads :(

Mystik (Posted 2005) [#2]

Yes, this is a big problem on Blitzmax. Blitz3d used to stream .ogg files from the hard drive. Blitzmax can't do this though. Shame as it is a big minus point for Blitzmax. Some of us have been trying to get FMOD working with Blitzmax, although the last couple of updates seem to have messed it up a bit on the mac. Have a look here :- http://www.blitzbasic.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=49584 Steve.

bradford6 (Posted 2005) [#3]

please BRL, reinstate FMOD mod, you're our only hope!

Ferminho (Posted 2005) [#4]

or at least some threading... x) I'm afraid of ogg loading times too

Warren (Posted 2005) [#5]

I've sped up OGG load times on the Mac by loading the files up in (I forget the program name, sorry) and resaving them. I don't know why that helped, but it did.