Getting the download speed of a movie!!!

[shivboy]

Can anybody PLEASE help me with how to show the download speed of the user while loading the movie? you can find the example of it on http://www.dubit.co.uk . PLEASE HELP ME! IM A NEWBIE!

[R0N]

k, here comes my way of solving this task, hopefully mathematically correct
If there are any errors or mistakes in the code, tell me. I'm quite new to flash too, btw.

I tried this code by loading an external swf into a host MC
(you guess, called host) via the loadMovie() command on _level1.
I made a seperate MovieClip on the main timeline with the follwing sourcecode:
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onClipEvent (load) {
now=0;
last=0; //Initialisation
frame=1;
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
frame += 1;
if (_parent.host.getBytesTotal() > 0 && frame % 12 == 0) {

// I took the modulo operator to point only at full seconds
// My framerate was 12 frames/second

now = _parent.host.getBytesLoaded();
_parent.transfer = math.round(now-last);

//transfer is my dynamic text field with the "live"
//framerate - means refreshed every second

last = now; //swap 'em
}

_parent.average = math.round (_parent.host.getBytesLoaded()/frame*12);

//divides by its already played frames and multiplies with
//the movies framerate - "average framerate"

}
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I hope this will help you. Once again, I take no responsibility for its correctness, 'cause its deepest night and I have no ambition to test it with my stop watch - but everything seemed okay for me.
((since I had constant lousy 4k on my 56k modem *sigh*))

greets
ron
[Edited by R0N on 08-02-2001 at 07:16 PM]