Hello , I need help regarding loading a Flash Movie

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i recently made a flash movie that is basically a video player and loads a flv file and plays it on the browser. I named the flash movie shizvid.swf and I uploaded it to my web server. I then type in my website ([color=#800080]www.thashizzit.net[/color]) and for some reason the movie won’t load…then i decided to directly access the flash movie by typing in ([url=“http://www.thashizzit.net/shizvid.swf”][color=#800080]www.thashizzit.net/shizvid.swf[/color]) but the movie will still not load. I have all my web stuff also stored in my C drive and the movie does play…but when i do it online, it doesn’t. Can you help me?..here’s the code i used to embed the flash movie …

<object classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000” codebase="[color=#0000ff]http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0[/color]" width=“280” height=“240”>
<param name=“movie” value=“shizvid.swf”>
<param name=“quality” value=“high”>
<embed src=“shizvid.swf” quality=“high” pluginspage="[color=#0000ff]http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer[/color]" type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” width=“280” height=“240”></embed>

You can visit my website [color=#800080]www.thashizzit.net[/color] you’ll see it won’t load it (it’s by ‘VIDEO BOX’)

plus, all my other flash stuff will play except the one i recently made. This puzzles me.

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if your loading movies then you are loading large files which flash doesnt like if you just dump it all on it… it will have to load a hell of a lot before it knows what to display… unless you give it special (preloading) instructions

have you tried investigating the art of preloaders?

Prophet.

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well, they’re not big files at all… shizvid.swf (the video player) is only 68 kb, the jinvid.flv (the external flash video) is only 1.04 mb … ? (fpr now i took out the jinvid.flv…but the browser should still at least display the shizvid.swf, but just with a blank display witht he controls intact…but the browser shows nothing)

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not quite true - if you have a look at some of the threads on preloaders here, a lot will start off with saying something like “my preloader only shows up at 40%” im sure i could give you a whole story of questionable validity on why it does this but its late and im not going to waste either of our time trying to! lol

personally i think its a preloader prob… but then having said that, i have never worked with videos (y wuld i? im on 56K!) and so i dunno if its a problem with that… altho id turn off "export to first frame if you have that checked under linkages :wink:

Prophet.

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Hold ON! why are you trying to load a swf? It’s a mov file right? and looks like it’s streaming. If you want it in a swf you’ll have to embed it in flash…why would you want to do that anyway?

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erm… either you already solved the problem… or … well your pc messes it up… i tried the page… it seems to work perfectly well…

btw… nice page…

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yer looks like he solved it coz it wasnt working for me when i first posted now i see stuff… :wink:

Prophet.