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A couple questions regarding distribution size

Discussion in 'iOS and tvOS' started by Mr. Animator, Jan 26, 2009.

  1. Mr. Animator

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    Hey folks,

    So I'm having a hard time figuring out how large my app actually is once installed on the iphone. Is there some easy way to tell from within Xcode or the finder how big my app actually is?

    Another question I have is regarding importing of MP3's. It seems like no matter what I do, all compressed audio (mp3, mp4, whatever) comes into unity at 1411 kbps, so a typical mp3 weighs in 6 times larger than it should. For instance, I have an mp3 that's under 2 megs on my drive, but in unity it says its 18 megs or so. There doesn't seem to be any way to change this - am I missing something?
     
    Mr. Animator, Jan 26, 2009
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  2. potan

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    Mr. Animator, as far as i know it's inside that build folder, with your application name.

    I'm not sure if that's the only one copied to the device though, i'd love to know more about this too :D
     
    potan, Jan 26, 2009
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  3. Lab013

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    Build your app... Then view it in finder and compress it to zip. Get info and find out size.
     
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  4. Dreamora

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    Thats wrong

    Apple does not use the ultra compression profile for the iphone (anymore at least, 2.0 used that, install times were a horror with an hour for 100mb games like their poker)

    take away 15-20% from your uncompressed size, thats what you will likely get in the end.
     
    Dreamora, Jan 26, 2009
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  5. ReJ

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    MP3's are used as-is on iPhone. We don't really do any changes to them (the import progress bar you see actually represents converting mp3 to ogg for playing inside the editor).

    How doe you query kbps? And how do you judge final size of an audio file inside your iPhone distribution?
     
    ReJ, Jan 26, 2009
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  6. Mr. Animator

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    It shows file size and the 1411 bit rate in the import options for the MP3. Perhaps this is just what it WOULD be if it were being imported as Ogg Vorbis? If that's the case its a little confusing, seeing as how I'd expect that information to not be visible if it doesn't apply to the format I have selected at the time.
     
    Mr. Animator, Jan 26, 2009
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  7. ReJ

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    Ah, I see what you mean. Will be fixed.
     
    ReJ, Jan 27, 2009
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  8. EducaSoft

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    Euhm, I don't think I get it.


    OK te updated iphone version can now play music in compressed form, but suppose that I have here on my computer an 64kbps mono soundtrack, then how should I get this one inside my iphone game ?

    If the file is 500Kb, will it just increase my game with 500kb, or will it increase more.

    And what about that OGG conversion. Is it only converted to play correct in the editor but on the iphone it is kept as the original (not recompressed) mp3 file?


    How many mp3 files could we play simultaneously? (More then 1?)


    Regards,

    Bart
     
    EducaSoft, Jan 30, 2009
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  9. Dreamora

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    Right, iphone uses the mp3. iphone does not support OGG.

    File size therefor will only raise the the MP3 size + the little memory you will have to invest to link it to objects through scripts or components
     
    Dreamora, Jan 30, 2009
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  10. EducaSoft

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    tnx dreamora

    Any idea if more then 1 mp3 can be played at once ?

    or maybe 1 mp3 and then some uncompressed sfx over it ?
     
    EducaSoft, Jan 30, 2009
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  11. ReJ

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    You can play only 1 mp3 at once (that is hardware/apple API restriction). You can play several uncompressed sounds over it.
     
    ReJ, Jan 30, 2009
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