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There seems to be a lot of confusion in this thread. All that's being asked for (if I understand) is convert to JPEG on export to reduce the download size for certain images. Of course JPEG is lossy and doesn't support alpha, which is why it is never used in the editor, it just could be an option to further compress JPEG suitable images when exporting.

This has been on my todo list for a while. A workaround in the mean time is to convert images to .jpg yourself after exporting, then you need to update the filenames in two places: first in c2runtime.js and then also in offline.appcache. (find and replace myfile.png with myfile.jpg in both)
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ozziedave, I just made a blank project which plays some music and stops it on a key press and it works fine in all browsers. Can you make a blank project where it doesn't work? That's always better than a full project, usually I ask people not to send me their whole projects anyway because it's such hard work to find problems in them!
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I think getting Construct 2 to remember where image files originally came from is likely to cause problems. It probably would be pretty confusing if you move or rename folders, or if you send your project to someone else the option becomes useless again.

So I would simply recommend you use a project folder if you want to use that feature... is that a good enough compromise?
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Are you sure? I tested the 'missing plugins' notification with behaviors as well and it worked. The thing is it only works with files saved in the release that message was introduced or newer, because it adds extra info to the project file indicating the used plugins and behaviors. In projects from older builds that information is missing so the old error appears. Maybe you're opening an old project?
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I think you should ask PhoneGap about this. Send them your zip file and see what they say.
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The movement involves moving very small distances. It appears "choppy" on Chrome probably because it's using Point sampling and therefore can't position images between pixels. Other browsers use Linear so can draw images between pixels which makes it look smoother. Try turning on WebGL and enabling Linear sampling to fix Chrome.
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Have you tried changing the port in preferences? Different ports in the range 50000 to 60000 might work.
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Can you post a .capx which can't stop audio? Last I tested it it was working OK.

Firefox can't loop audio, it's a browser limitation.

Browsers have really terrible audio support and to try and make it work as well as possible the Audio object currently uses three different audio APIs. It's a bit of a nightmare, and patchy browser support means it still doesn't entirely work. It's something HTML5 needs to improve on, it's not something we can fix our end.
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Are you sure it's not talking about a filename within the zip? Are there any files with unusual names in there?
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OK, how about this one:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15217362/platform-floorfix2.zip

There's on rare occasions a tiny 1px "bump" walking along a jumpthru that has another jumpthru in the background. It's difficult to fix this in the engine, I've tried but it's actually pretty hard to detect that case. Give it a shot, does it seem to be working well enough?
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Yeah, Native Client is Google's version of ActiveX, but actually done securely (so don't get as nervous like you do with ActiveX - Native Client can't actually affect your computer at all). Interesting technology, but still a bit obscure, no idea if it will take off.
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You could also give PhoneGap a shot and see if it works for you:

http://www.scirra.com/tutorials/71/how-to-make-native-phone-apps-with-construct-2-and-phonegap

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