Comments on: Flash Player 9 Unacceptable JPEG’s from phpThumb

By: Hugo Rune

Hugo Rune — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:07:22 +0000

Yes, you’re right – sorry. I went back and looked at the tweaking I’d done on phpThumb and noticed that I’d also set it to generate PNG’s as thumbs instead of JPG’s. That was the tweak that got it up and running for me, and not the interlacing option..

Regardless, it’s working for me anyway. My only gripe now is that it’s godawfully slow in generating the initial thumbnails.. Once it’s cached then there’s no problem. I’ve had to get my uploading scripts to display the thumbs directly after uploading.. Not a massive problem at all, more of a “crap, another thing I didn’t want to have to spend my time messing about with”.

Have a good Christmas!

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:03:10 +0000

That is outdated information. Flash Player 8 added support for progressive JPEG's loaded at runtime.

By: Hugo Rune

Hugo Rune — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:44:00 +0000

You can get phpThumb working with flash quite easily – this is from the phpThumb FAQ.. ( http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/demo/docs/phpthumb.faq.txt )

“Q: Why can’t Flash work with images output from phpThumb()?
A: Flash doesn’t like progressive JPEG. Set:
$PHPTHUMB_CONFIG[‘output_interlace’] = false;”

Worked a treate for me, once I cleared out the phpthumb/cache directory on my server..

Good luck!

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:08:36 +0000

I'm already using the random number trick for the image loading. It's the server guys who have it rough in testing, not me.

By: joey

joey — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:35:34 +0000

update to that bit of code. Should read:
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(â€image.jpg?id=â€+randomID );