# Help with playing FLV files! Not a nubie question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-playing-flv-files-not-a-nubie-question/236146>\
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**Created:** [August 17, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-playing-flv-files-not-a-nubie-question/236146 "2007-08-17T16:03:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![djruslan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@djruslan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/djruslan)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-playing-flv-files-not-a-nubie-question/236146/1 "2007-08-17T16:03:00Z")

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Ok, here is the deal.

I’m using the FLVPlayback component in a .swf file inside the FlVPlayback component I’m embedding the path to the movie in the contentPath field; I tried both relative and absolute links. There is also a skin for the FLVPlayback component as a .swf file. So I have the player swf file, skin swf file, and the flv movie located in the same directory on the server. When I put the html file that calls on the player swf file in a different location but it points to the player swf file. The flash is not working it’s not playing the flv. But if I put the html file in the same location as all the other files then it works like a charm. What is the deal? Has anyone experienced this problem? All the links point to the files the right way so what can it be. I need to serve this flv file on different pages how do I accomplish that? Oh, yes the pages are on the same servers but in different directories.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you so much!