[osflash] Caching in the standalone player

[Nicolas Cannasse]

> Hi,
> 
> I'm just starting on a project for an installation which will be loading 
> in a lot of remote images. I'd like for these images to be cached 
> somewhere on the system. I know that if the project was running in a 
> browser then the browser's cache would be used but I'm wondering what 
> happens with a standalone projector (particularly on a Mac which is what 
> this installation will be running on).
> 
>  From my initial tests it seems that the remote image files are cached 
> somewhere for the time that the projector is running. If I load 200 
> images, switch to another page of 200 then when I go back to the initial 
> page they load more or less instantaneously. However, it seems that only 
> around 400 images (or presumably some amount of filesize) are kept in 
> the cache. After you have loaded more than this the older images seem to 
> need to reload from the server.
> 
> Does anyone know where the Flash Player stores this cache and if it is 
> possible to somehow tweak it (either in the player itself, the operating 
> system or by using a third party projector tool).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Kelvin :)

That would be a good work for Screenweaver HX :)

For instance you can override all the URLs being requested, and store
the data on hard-drive to retrieve it later. The nice thing is that you
don't need to change your flash client at all !

Nicolas