SWF video will not play in FIREFOX or SAFARI but fine in IE and CHROME

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

have you verified that your code is cross-browser compatible? if not, google “flash cross browser” (sans quotes) and you should find lots of good examples…

if you have then let us know and we can go to the next step!

sitruc

[Jeremy Chopra]

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ok – since you are working entirely within dreamweaver, i’ll push this thread to that forum…in your code there you have the object tag, but understandably if you aren’t sure what to change outside of dw, then it’s best to get the advice over there on how to fix it within the app…

best of luck!

sitruc

[Jeremy Chopra]

Ok thanks Crutis

I have moved the thread over to there. Thanks again.

http://www.cascadepictures.co.uk

[Jeremy Chopra]

Hi again Curtis

I’ve put this thread on dreamweaver but while I’m waiting to get some feedback I thought would check something by you if you have a moment?

I looked up “flash cross browser” and found an “object” code that people were using in place of dreamweavers swf player code..

I replaced the entire swf player code with that object code changing just the details that I needed to to get the swf to point to my swf file. However the result is exactly the same.

The code I’m talking about is from this site:
https://www.coffeecup.com/forums/website-design-and-development/flash-object-tag-that-works-cross-browser-without-embed-and-vali/?page=1&forum_user_posts_per_page=all

I would have thought there would be more on this on google though but that seemed to be the only page that was clear on it and its quite an old one? Any other suggestions in case no one gets back to me on the other forum?

thanks again

http://www.cascadepictures.co.uk

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

looks like the page in question still has the old code, but i assume you just did a test page? your best bet is to make a simple page completely outside your design and download some sample code like you found and even try it with a sample flash movie that isn’t yours. once you get that working, swap in your video…once that is all working, you can plug that simple example back into your page.

that way you eliminate any other outside variable in the page as a culprit and can just focus on a simple page with a flash embed as the only content…

sitruc

[Jeremy Chopra]

Hi again

I have been trying to use the code on a test page most of the day but no luck. I think I’m going to have to go and use youtube as a video source and iframe the video into the page instead.

From looking around the net it seems that there are a number of people and sites that know how to fix it but I can’t make heads or tails out of their description of what to do, so although its easily fixed according to those who know how, is proving a dead end for me and a massive time consumer 🙁

Fortunately youtube is a decent (although ugly) alternative!

Thanks again

http://www.cascadepictures.co.uk

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

post a link to your test page and we can take a look!

sitruc

[Jeremy Chopra]

Thanks for having a look…

I have uploaded these 2 versions:

https://www.cascadepictures.co.uk/reeltest
https://www.cascadepictures.co.uk/reeltest2

On the first one I just replaced the entire swf object code with the code that others have been using from around the google searches just adjusting the size and name of the swf its pointing to etc.

But I get a broken flash symbol on dreamweaver and no video plays..

On the second one I did the same but I added an object ID and connected directly to the swf file using the pick whip which then made the video play off the local drive without a broken flash symbol but when uploaded does not play on any browser.

The code in question starts at line 301

http://www.cascadepictures.co.uk

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ooh – i mean a real simple test page – so like in html blocks, you have

[html]
[body]
[flash]
[/body]
[/html]

like this:

https://sitruc.com/cow/flash/

that has 2 types of embeds that should be pretty cross-browser friendly – one uses a js script and one doesn’t…but take that code and change it out to use your movie and see if it plays…if not, then it might be the movie file itself?

sitruc