Flash, MP3 and Webcast on Mobile Devices

Hello there,
Please excuse my newbie-ness here. While I am completely
green to the Mobile Development, I have been designing websites for
many years.
The company I work for right now has a long history in Audio
Broadcasting, and currently webcast daily agricultural audio
content from our website. We are also developing various Flash basd
programs that let us deliver audio in more attractive ways, while
at the same time, keeping file sizes to a minimum, as a large
portion of our clientelle is rural where no broadband exists yet.
Here is where I need help. Our newest project (and our first
on mobile) is quite complex (at least with my lack knowledge in
Mobile technologies)
We want to deliver audio messages (news stories), about 2 to
3 minutes in length, to end users Cellphones, daily. 1 message per
day. These audio messages would be housed or contained within a
Flash movie (as at this point, I think it is the best delivery
method for our platform). We would be sending these messages to
people that have willingly given us their Cellphone information.
Another major important need for this to work, is that we
want the content to be like that of a PodCast/Webcast, and driven
by RSS. Is this possible?
I'm sure there are a million more questions I need to ask,
however if any of you could start me off on the right foot, at
least I can provide the answers to my superiors, whether or not
this project is doable.
Thanks so much..
Eric

Hi Eric,
OK, big project and big response, so I'll shorten it to the
essentials how I see it.
1. Memory is going to be a big problem, If you wrap the audio
in a swf file, then the whole swf will be running on the device,
this will consume a lot of memory and probably crash. You have on
average 2Mb of memory to play with in Flash Lite (FL) on a device.
2 to 3 mins of audio at a resonable quality will be about 2Mb.
2. I feel you need to stream audio, but Im not sure if this
is possble in Flash Lite 2.x. It is certainly not possible in FL
1.1. Anyone?
3. You cannot parse RSS natively in FL 1.1, you will need to
run it through a script to turn it into name>value pairs. You
can parse it in FL 2.x.
4. Obvioulsy all your users will need FL installed on their
device.
Hope that helps.
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