[BOOTANIMATION] Boot Animation Slow first play - G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps

Hello, I tried searching around but couldn't find any similar problem.
I've created my own bootanimation.zip which can be downloaded here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=576GF823 Its Red Wings Related, showing the Center Ice at Joe Louis Arena, then an awesome goal by zetterberg, then loops center ice again. That all works great.
The problem I've run into is that the first time it plays any of the animations they are slow. and when I'm only playing the goal once it goes in slow mo, if i loop it, the 2nd time it plays fast as it should. Is there anyway to fix this? I originally was just doing the goal, then the center ice on loop. I tried putting 1 center ice first, hoping it would take the lag and allow the goal to play full speed, but it doesn't.
Any help is appreciated.

The first playback is slow because it has to load every frame into memory while simultaneously performing the boot process. After all frames are cached, there's no more fighting other processes for access to the system partition.
I'm not 100% on this, but I don't think you can do anything to pause the boot sequence for that first load of the animation.
HTC Vision (G2) - CM7 B62 w/AUS radio

Yeah, I just ran into this same issue making my own. :/
I wish there was a way to pre-cache the boot animation, if it ran full framerate then I'd actually get to see the whole clip when the phone boots.
Mine has no loop though, it's one continuous clip.

crater said:
Hello, I tried searching around but couldn't find any similar problem.
I've created my own bootanimation.zip which can be downloaded here Its Red Wings Related, showing the Center Ice at Joe Louis Arena, then an awesome goal by zetterberg, then loops center ice again. That all works great.
The problem I've run into is that the first time it plays any of the animations they are slow. and when I'm only playing the goal once it goes in slow mo, if i loop it, the 2nd time it plays fast as it should. Is there anyway to fix this? I originally was just doing the goal, then the center ice on loop. I tried putting 1 center ice first, hoping it would take the lag and allow the goal to play full speed, but it doesn't.
Any help is appreciated.
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Not sure what application you used to make you're bootanimation, but I made mine in After Effects and this is what I did to fix the issue. When rendering I made the dimensions half of the actual screen dimensions (this ended up being 960x600 for my tf700t), then I set the frame rate to 10fps. I then modified the desc.txt file accordingly:
1920 1200 18
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
(don't copy/paste that, can't remember if you need spaces or not).
Basically I used smaller, less demanding files (and by modifying the export framerate, fewer of them) and then had the tablet just blow them up to fit the screen. No discernible loss in quality. Hopefully this helps someone out there.

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I get the start screen but I cant get the ROMS to start, it just goes back to the start screen. Any suggestion on how to get the games to start?
Kinda related to this problem I think, but when I use smartgear and I turn off "throttle to 60 fps", it actually speeds up the games, and sometimes it crashes to the start screen.
Check settings, and play with it a little.
Yea I have been I cant figure out why it wont start.
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phatmanxxl said:
No i never heard of "togetfile" its just an exe. Someone mentioned in Modaco that it had to be in the same folder as the roms. I messed around with the settings and stuff, I dont really like it, the games are choppy and the control is sloppy.
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You have to install TGETFile on the phone first I think... As far as choppiness though, you will find that it is more choppy with sound enabled. If you try without sound it should run a little more smoother (not perfect though). Overclocking your Dash might give some results as well. I've tried it with mine overclocked to 228-240 and it seemed to work a little better but again not perfect, so I just disable the sound and run at normal clock speed just to save battery (at least until I get a better battery, or upgrade to the HTC Snap/Maple thing - whichever comes first)
^playing an emulator with a trackball will be interesting. Mine is clocked at 252.
I do have the sound off and the screen skip set at 3. It seems to do ok.

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Hi everyone
I'm in the process of making my own boot animation which I am sure you will all like
However, I am using LeeDroid's boot animation as a base and my soundtrack that goes along with the animation is twice as long as the LeeDroid one. Will it still all play when the phone turns on or will it stop after a certain point?
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Hi,
I built a (I would say very nice) bootanimation but the problem is that is seems kind of laggy.
The animation has 2 parts (one that runs once, one that repeats). First part has 175 images, second has 45. All images are sized 360x640. Boot animation works but I have the following issue: it lags! First part always lags, second part lags only on the first run, after that it is smooth as it should be. I also tried using onle the first part and it's the same: first loop is laggy, second is smooth.
the desc.txt contains this:
720 1280 24
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
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