Curtis Thompson
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hello…
[Jeremy Chopra] ” Can anyone suggest another more reliable player for video content I could use?”
video for everybody (https://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody) is nice and i’ve used it in the past…you also don’t need javascript for this and can do a basic set of embed tags that does the same thing.
here’s a good reference site if you want more info on html5 video itself:
hope that helps!
sitruc
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hello…
w/o access to that type of phone, i can’t really do any sort of testing to try to answer this question for you, so i’d recommend doing what we did on the other thread – take the jw player code (amd just that) out of the page and put it in a single blank page and then try to load that on the android phone…if it doesn’t crash, then take it out of the bigger page and see if the page crashes. sort of a iterative debug process. best way to go about it…
hope that helps!
sitruc
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hello..
ya – w/o being able to see your flash source, it’s pretty hard for me to offer much at this stage, unfortunately… :-/
but do just go through that movie file source and double-check everything…
sitruc
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olk – first step is to take that sample movie i used (or any known working flash movie) and use that instead of your demo reel one – if that works, then you know that it’s your movie…
as for why it wouldn’t work – i can’t say as i don’t have access to your flash file, but i’d guess that perhaps you do have a path issue somehow and that you are referencing something that it can find locally but not on the server once it is copied there…
sitruc
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hello…
ooh – i mean a real simple test page – so like in html blocks, you have
[html]
[body]
[flash]
[/body]
[/html]like this:
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
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hello…
post a link to your test page and we can take a look!
sitruc
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hello…
if you want to support all mobile devices and non-flash visitors (always a nicer thing to do), then you can use html5 video with a flash fallback.
there are a ton of code snippets out there to do this (video.js, video for everybody, etc.), but here’s a simple code breakdown:
https://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/embed-videos-in-your-web-pages-using-html5/
you can set up html5 video to loop automatically, as you can the embeded fallback flash movie…
hope that helps!
sitruc
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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
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hello…
ya – this is one of those that just takes some experimenting with. you shouldn’t have to create an ie-specific css file, but rather just go through item by item and futz with it until you get it working in all the major browsers.
css can be tricky that way, but in 99.5% of the cases, you can use single declarations for all browsers and not need to customize per…
and don’t worry about sub versions of firefox or chrome – they release versions every month or so, and for the most part you should be ok across all those versions, as the releases are more micro in nature…
ie7/ie8/ie9 are a bit different, but not too bad. it just takes practice. again sorry to not have the magic answer to fix it…if you had me working on it, it’d be a bit of test and fix on my side too…
sitruc
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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