Trouble with SWF in webpage when viewed with Explorer

[Fernando Mol]

I’m using Windows Vista 64 bit.

Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer show the video.

This is what I get in Firefox:

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[Aaron Hayman]

Yes, Exactly, That’s what I’m trying to fix. I’ve played just the SWF file off of my own computer (a Mac) and it looks perfect, as do all of the other similar files that I have. In light of this, other folks that I’ve talked to have told me that they were pretty sure that the problem was not with the SWF, but with the the code that references that SWF in the HTML. In fact, I posted a question about this in the Flash forum here and was told that it wasn’t a problem with the Flash and that I needed to post it in this section.

I don’t know what I would have done in Flash any differently anyway as it seems that there aren’t so many variables in that program when creating this kind of a thing.

I’ll try the one thing that you mentioned, which is generating the code via Dreamweaver (rather than with Flash) and see how that goes. I’ll let you know what I come up with.

[Fernando Mol]

I see…

Jameson suggested to use a different method for embed the swf. Let’s try that. If you are familiar with jQuery, go for the tools Jameson posted.

Personally, I have used swfobject in the past with nice results. You can download it from here:

https://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

You need to download the last version of swfobject. This will be a zip file. Unzip and place the extracted files in your site. Upload. Don’t forget to read the instructions, I may be forgetting something.

Then, download the swfobject generator. Air or HTML. It’s a very simple application that will allow you, by defining some parameters, to generate the necessary code you’ll need to place in your actual page.

I hope this helps

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[Aaron Hayman]

Cool… this is exactly the sort of thing that I’m looking for: Code that is going to be more current (and hopefully more reliable) than what my not-so-current CS3 will generate.

I understand the process of downloading, copying and pasting code as I have done that very same thing with JQwery things for various other elements of my site and got them (with a bit of tweaking) to work just fine.

I’ll go ahead and try this and get back to you. Thanks a lot. I have a feeling that this just might be the sort of fix that works.

[Aaron Hayman]

I went ahead and checked out that link that you gave me: https://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

It was indeed pretty slick the way that they provide a sort of “creator” that creates the code for you. I did all of that and then tested out how that code works with my page and the SWF inside of it… and it’s still buggy when viewed with Firefox.

I wonder then if there isn’t another way of achieving the same sort of thing that I’m doing with Flash: having a sort of thumbnail menu that plays the videos of each corresponding thumbnail in a separate space? Could I perhaps reengineer the pages on my site in question to use some sort of Javascript feature to do the same thing that I’m trying to do in Flash? I’ve been looking for such a thing o the JQuery site and haven’t come up with anything so far. Would a javascript solution necessarily be more reliable, more cross platform capable than something made with Flash?

[Fernando Mol]

This is weird. I see your file is not just a flv inside a player, you are trying to create a videobox. Right? The thing is, if there’s anything inside the Flash when you placed the video that points to the external controller and is out of date now, you’ll need to fix it inside Flash. My guess.

Try finding any updates for Flash

go to the menu >Help >Updates

Then place your video again and publish. If it’s something about having an old software then Adobe should be making some fix.

If there’s no fix, try placing your FLV directly in Dreamweaver and see if that works. This will tell you if there’s a code problem or something inside your Flash file.

I hope this helps

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