[Etoys] [squeak-dev] etoys performance problems

[karl]

Ties Stuij wrote:
> Sound format
>
> Another strategy to trimming down the image size is using a compressed
> sound format. At the moment we use wav for sound right? If I'm wrong,
> excuse me, but I haven't had time to investigate the matter to
> thourougly. Anyways, since a number of activities have quite a few
> samples in them, ranging from short utterings to long sentences, it
> would be very worth while if we could use a compressed format. From
> the mailinglist I read rumours about Ogg plugin and a gstreamer
> plugin... Is it already possible to use Ogg files in Etoys? If so how?
> I'd already be happy with general directions.
>   
You have to load this fix to get the SoundLibraryTool access to file 
compression:
https://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/5353/SoundLibraryCompress.10.cs

Select the sound in the tool, bring up the halo menu and compress it 
with gsm, ogg or speex codec

Karl