Everything works fine on the "Published" page, with the skin SWF and movie FLV in the same directory as the HTML file that contains the embed.
However, when I copy/paste the same exact OBJECT/EMBED into another page on the internet, specifically a blog post on my website, the controls/skin never show up under the movie file... but the movie plays through just fine. ( I do change the references to the SWF file... see below).
And yes, I have uploaded the skin file...
You can see the correctly working version at this URL:
http://www.fourfivetwofour.com/playground/movies/Untitled-1.html
If it helps at all, when I do the OBJECT/EMBED from my blog post, I change all instances of "Untitled-1.swf" to a direct path, ie "http://www.fourfivetwofour....../Untitled-1.swf".
Is that perhaps what's causing the problem? And if so, how do you get around that?
Again, the only problem is the player controls/skin not showing up.
Sorry to act like such a n00b... Web/graphic design is what I do (since 1997), but I've delayed learning "mad" Flash skills until recently.
Thanks much,
Four
I found this advice in another thread and it has resolved the problem for me but only when viewed through FireFox, not IE. What browser are you using?
Just in case anyone on here is as silly as me, or doesn't understand what's going on, here's my solution...
Just like you can set a "base" url for any relative links in an HTML document, you can do that same for relative links within an SWF...
The 'skin' file for the video player I was using was loaded via a relative url from the SWF file.
When the SWF file is embeded in an HTML document at, say, www.tommygeorge.com, any relative urls will of course be pre-pended with "tommygeorge.com". If the SWF file is hosted on www.fourfivetwofour.com, however, the relative url breaks, because it's looking for the skin file in the same directory as the HTML file it's embedded in (somewhere on tommygeorge.com).
Thankfully, you can set the base url, enabling you to embed your SWF anywhere.
Here's an example of the code I use, and if for some reason you're even newer to flash than I am and you want an explaination - I'll be glad to give you one.
(notice base=" ")
src="http://www.fourfivetwofour.com/playground/movies/Untitled-1.swf"
base="http://www.fourfivetwofour.com/playground/movies/"
play="false"
quality="high"
bgcolor="#ffffff"
name="Untitled-1"
allowscriptaccess="never"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
align="middle"
height="276"
width="320">
I found this advice in another thread and it has resolved the problem for me but only when viewed through FireFox, not IE. What browser are you using?
Hmm... Silly me, I didn't try it all the browsers. I mainly use Opera, and Firefox secondarily... and rarely IE, which is the only browser I *didn't* check this in.
However, I know a lot of IE users that have been viewing the movies just fine , as since I have fixed this I have created more than 10 different SWF files with FLV movies playing in an FLV Playback control (from Flash 8 Pro).
If I hear any complaints of it not working, or learn anything else about this, I'll surely let you know.
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