Flash built in JPEG encoding?

[Timoth]

Hi everyone.

I'm pretty new to Flash, so I'm not familiar with action scripting. I'm currently doing a website in director which involves the user uploading an image to the site. Unfortunately, shockwave doesn't have built in JPEG encoding, and uploading the image uncompressed would be too time consuming. There are however some pretty expensive xtras out there, which I'd rather not use.

I was just wondering if Flash had the ability to encode images to JPEG? If so I could probably pass the image to a flash movie, encode it and then pass it back - or upload it from the flash movie.

Or if that ain't possible, can anyone suggest anything else I could use to encode the image?

Thanks!

Tim

[al hack]

Well maybe you can add the images to the swf file, and flash automatically encode these images on JPEG format, and you can optimize these images in the publish setting to reduce more the size file, all in the same file.

[kgtrip]

Flash can deal with jpegs and other kind of image files (gif, png, bmp) even in run time. I just don't exactly remember the AS command I think it should be loadMovie but not sure

[strille]

Timoth, no, you cannot encode an image to jpeg at run-time in Flash. Flash can only load jpeg images at run-time.