Video not loading/external imagery

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I have built a page in dreamweaver. everything is showing up as it should, but I currently have 3 problems I was hoping someone could help me with.

  1. I have a .flv loaded into a flash file and that .swf loaded into my dreamweaver file. It shows up when I preview the file in dreamweaver but not when I load the file. Why does it not show up when I push the site live? I have all of the assets loaded.

  2. I have created a .swf that loads images externally. The .swf shows when I load it, but the external imagery are not showing up when I push the page live.

  3. Simple question, I have all of my links set to one color, but for some reason they are all showing up blue. Any thoughts?

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your paths are probably incorrect.

  1. post some links so we can see
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ff-design.com is the simplest version of the site I have up right now. The video in the upper left corner is the video I am referring to.

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your link colours are not working because you are applying the pink colour to the span that is wrapping each link… you need to actually apply it to the anchor tag.

a { color: #------; }

make sure your video is within /banners

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Thank you I will do that.

What do you mean about making sure the video is in banners?
The beginning of the .swf file shows up but then when you click on it nothing happens?

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i’m not sure how you are actually embedding the video file (.flv)

please elaborate on exactly how you are doing it, which files are where, and how you’re importing them into flash.

if your server isn’t set up exactly the same as your computer (with respect to folder structure), then you will run into problems (which is what i think is happening here)

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I have everything living inside the same web folder only set up in subfolders. I have all of my images in one folder and all of my flash in one folder. I set my videos up in a third subfolder and imported the video into flash. I then published the final flash document and imported the .swf into the dreamweaver index file. When it first showed the graphics in the .swf but not the .flv I thought it might not be linking to the .flv so I pushed the entire video subfolder to the public_html folder on the server so there would be no question that it was there. I am not sure why it isn’t loading unless I the is a CS3 file that I don’t have loaded properly to make it read the movie.

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are you streaming the flash video or is it embedded into your .fla’s timeline directly?

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streaming

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Does it work locally? Meaning, can you play the video in the page locally?

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if you set up your .fla locally and then later changed the location of the .flv you need to update your .fla to point to the new location…

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have done all of that. It works locally but not when I push it live. It was created in flash CS3 so I am thinking there may be a file that was generated that needs to be loaded.

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nope. the only thing flash video needs is flash player…

if you say your all your paths are correct, then they must be correct, but I still believe the path to the .flv from within your .fla is wrong, in that it could still be looking for your .flv file in the wrong place.

try switching it for an absolute path to www.yoursite.com/banners/firstvideo.flv

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will do. Thanks for your help!