FLVPlayback trouble

programming flash
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Hey All,

I am creating video preview pages on my porfolio site utilizing the FLVPlayback drag-n-drop component.

when I run the swf file the player resides in, everything runs flawlessly. However, when I test the entire site (loacally and remotely) the swf file with the vidPlayer that gets loaded into my main site will no display the player anymore :bad: Im new to flash video, but I just cant see how it works when you run just the swf that the player is in, and then doesnt all of the sudden when that swf is loaded into a flash site… Grrrr…

Im almost there, but how can I get it to behave like the video players on http://okaydave.com << the way they show the green barber poles while buffering the videos etc. Mine looks exactly like his, but doesnt work like it! :diss:

Thanx in advance for any tips!

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I just had this issue - I found that in the component inspector or in the property inspector, where you set the contentPath - it was placing an absolute url into the content path. So something like “my_computer/username/folder/folder/myfile.flv” - therefore, this didn’t work server-side. AFter having issues with setting the path there, I just set the path in script:

myplayer.contentPath = “myfile.flv”;

That may or may not be the problem you’re having… check it out

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sweet! Thats seemed to do the trick with getting the video to load into my site, but now when I run in on my server, the play controls at the bottom dont come up?? what the hell… is there a way I can attach them to the flvPlayer through AS without having to use the “perameters” window to choose the style? Thanx for the reply! Im almost there! woo hoo!

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That may be because you don’t have an extra swf on your sever - on you computer, when you use the FLVPlayBack component - flash generates an swf that should be next to your movie swf on your computer. This is a component skin - I think the default is “SteelExternalAll.swf” - look for that next to your main swf - place that on your server too. This is loaded to display the skin of the control panel for the component.

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Thanx, I did catch that, and it is in the same location as the other swf file but it still isnt coming up… is there a way to call it to be attached to the palyer via actionscript? Thanx for the replies I really appreciate your help!

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I have the same sort of problem aswell. Actually it works well in Firefox but IE doesn’t display anything. It didnt work before in firefox but I was pointed in the right direction by another thread in this forum.

To get it working in Firefox I had to add this line in the embed tag of the html part. This needs to be after the ‘src’ bit. i.e.

[COLOR=Red]<embed
src=“http://yoursite/filename.swf”
base=“http://yoursite/”
quality=“high”
wmode=“transparent”
bgcolor=“#ffffff”
width=“495”
height=“280”
name=“filename”
align=“middle”
allowScriptAccess=“sameDomain”
type=“application/x-shockwave-flash”
pluginspage=“http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”
/>[/COLOR]

If anyone has any idea why this is not workin in IE. Please let me know. Thanks

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Sorry forgot to tell you what line to add. You have to add a base url to it. if you check the code above. The line after ‘src=’, you will see it. C:-)

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thats great! thank you both for your help! it works perfectly in both IE and FF now! wonderful work!

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I was wondering how you got it working in IE. I am still having trouble displaying it in IE. I have a playlist which is loaded via an xml file. Thats not displaying either in IE. :cross-eye In FF its perfect. Thanks for your help.