Flash Decompiler ---> Poor Quality

[chardar]

Hi, i recently made a flash movie but due to HDD failure i lost the .FLA and was left with a .SWF only.... I used a flash decompiler (So Think) to get a .FLA from the .SWF and it all looks fine in Flash MX.... even works fine when i play, but as soon as i test it or publish it the quality goes all grainy . So i have 2 questions:

1) Is there anyway to make the quality better? Or am i missing something obvious?

2) The .SWF i was left with was basically complete. It just needed a preloader.... So is there anyway to have a preloader which loads a different .SWF so for example preloader.swf runs until movie.swf is fully loaded.

Thanks for looking

[Inglor]

What do you mean 'quality'? the image quality? you can fix that in file->publish settings although I doubt that's what you mean.

As for your second question, you can use loadMovie and load it externally,

I also thought up an interesting solution

grab a fully API code preloader.
download flasm (google it)
decompile into bytecode a file with the preloader
decompile into bytecode your movie file
add the preloader into the movie
recompile it with flasm

it's not a graphical interface , but I think it'll get the job done

[chardar]

ok thanx for the reply.

But a lot of that went over my head

whats an API preloader?

edit: Also if i do mc.loadmovie(movie.swf) will that preload it as well? or will it just open it?