Insert audio file - which way is better?

[Mitch_B]

I want to make my users to be able to listen an audio record.

What audio format I should record that audio?

Also I want if is possible to add a picture from the guy who's talking and in the meantime the audio to play to the end. Is something like we used to see news at TV, we hear only the voice of the pearson where his/her picture is sitting in the corner of the screen.

I'm not sure how I can do this, in flash, realplayer, I have no idea.

[Mitch_B]

Or, how they did this?
[macromedia.com...]

I hope I'm allowed do post this link.

Thanks :)

[bill]

Also consider embedding either a WAV or MP3 file if it's just audio. Those file formats are also widely accessible to a variety of platforms. It really depends on your audience. For example, personally I would stay away from the Real format, and I turn off Flash on all my systems.

[jusdrum]

I use Flash for delivering audio files because it is the most compatible format to embed within a web page and works predictably everytime. However, I always offer an MP3 file as an alternative for folks like Bill.

Creating a Flash file that with player controls for the music is incredibly simple. I bet you could find a tutorial for it on the web.

[Under influence]

new flash its not even a case of finding tutorials, just basically add your audio file and go to the components area and all the buttons to play, pause, etc are already in there.

[Mitch_B]

Looks easy.
Belive me or not, after spending more than 2 hours I can't figure it out how to link the control components to video or audio. Video is playing independentely without my auction on media controller components.
It must be somehow, but I don't know.

Thanks.

[Under influence]

well ok its not that easy, you need to add some actionscript to it to tell it when to play and stop and link it to the components. flashkit should have some good tutorials on this.