Another strategy to trimming down the image size is using a compressed sound format. At the moment we use wav for sound right? If I'm wrong, excuse me, but I haven't had time to investigate the matter to thourougly. Anyways, since a number of activities have quite a few samples in them, ranging from short utterings to long sentences, it would be very worth while if we could use a compressed format. From the mailinglist I read rumours about Ogg plugin and a gstreamer plugin... Is it already possible to use Ogg files in Etoys? If so how? I'd already be happy with general directions.
You have to load this fix to get the SoundLibraryTool access to file compression: https://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/5353/SoundLibraryCompress.10.cs
Select the sound in the tool, bring up the halo menu and compress it with gsm, ogg or speex codec
Sorry, I wasn't following the ticket closely. This seems to be good for inclusion. Also, you can choose the compression when recording from the sound recorder.
-- Yoshiki