Flash 8 audio stream

Question

I have designed a small media player reading a continuous
audio/video stream (broadcast).
Using "test movie" on flash 8, it works very well.
Uploading the swf file to the server and having included the
<embedded> code, the player does not play, although the
buttons, display, texts and so on work. What have I forgotten?
The site is www.tinmandownloads.com, and the stream is
http://212.72.165.26:9386.
Any idea?

Answer 1

I tried the suggestion of setting the buffer time for the
netstream object, and that didn't solve it. After a lot of digging
and tweaking of settings, it appears that it is a problem with the
hardware in relation to Flash.
The sound card is the SoundMax Integrated Audio (included in
most Dells). What makes it tricky is that it is a particular
revision of the card. When looking at the device details (Device
Manger->Sound, video and game controllers->SoundMAX
Integrated Digital Audio->Details), the device version is
VEN_8086 DEV_24D5 SUBSYS_017A1028. The drivers are the exact same
as a similar piece of hardware that has the device version VEN_8086
DEV_24D5 SUBSYS_01511028. The only difference between the two is
017A vs 0151.
The problem that exhibitted itself is a slowdown of the
recording stream by a factor of 6. So a 5 second clip becomes 30
seconds. Interestingly, with Flash 7, if the buffer is set, it
doesn't have this problem. However, if the buffer isn't set, the
problem arises. In Flash 9, however, the problem always occurs,
regardless of the buffer being set.
Furthermore, in Flash 7, the NetStream.silenceTimeout is
2000, but in Flash 9, it is undefined. I know this is a hardware
related problem, but I'm hoping there is something I can do in the
software to work around this problem.
I also played around with Breeze a little bit. With both
Flash 7 and Flash 9 using my hardware, if I have two instances of
Flash running (two browsers open), if I press the talk button
immediately after enabling the microphone it slows down by a factor
of two. Once I release the talk button and the re-click it, it
works fine. This leads me to believe that Breeze is doing some
microphone calibration or something.
Hope all this information helps, as this is quite a sticky
problem.