Sound.play() delay

[Guest]

I am building a small game engine optimized for android, everything works fine, and I can render around 100 animated sprites with a decent speed, but I am stuck with the sound.

when I play a sound there's a small delay, which is critical in action games, the first time I play a sound it runs fast, but after that there will be a delay.

I am using the usual:

var _mySound:Sound = new MySound();

_mySound.play();

I am using Flash CS5 with the android extension.

and testing on Samsung Galaxy S.

[banzai76_ · Accepted solution]

This is a known bug with the current version of AIR for Android, widely reported in the pre-release forums and logged with the engineers to be fixed.

Adobe staff have directly acknowledged it on those threads too, which I interpret as a good sign that it's a priority.

And yes, it is a pain!

[Guest]

hmmm I hope they fix this soon

I think air would be my perfect 2D games development tool after this issue is fixed, it's pretty fast with GPU rendering.

[boat5]

Hello,

Can someone from Adobe please give an estimated time frame on this? Not to be impatiant, I am waiting to release my games due to delayed sound effects.

[Guest]

It's so bad still....

[jonbcampos]

You're using mp3s right? Try wavs. They are bigger, but you don't get that delay at the beginning.

[boat5]

what bitrate do you use? and what phone do you have?

I still get horible delay when calling play() on any audio file, at least 600-700ms.

I use a droidX, i just tried wavs and mp3s, seem to be the same.

its so bad for sound effects