Flash Video not showing

#1 09-05-2008, 08:11 PM

Hello all,

Sorry for what may be a newb question, but I'm fooling around with embedding a
flash video file and absolutly nothing shows on the page either in preview or
published form. All files are in the same directory as the page.

Here is a link:

http://www.petersenfamily.net/testvideo.html

Anyone have any ideas? First time trying this.....seemed easy enough, famous
last words....haha

Thanks,
Rich

#2 09-05-2008, 08:50 PM

Some of the basics with SWF's is that the SWF 'FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf' has to be in the same location as the HTML page http://www.petersenfamily.net/testvideo.html.

Are they?

#3 09-06-2008, 07:05 AM

Yes sir, the skin swf, the flvplayer swf, the flv file and the html page are all in the root of the site. Also, Scripts is uploaded with AC_RunActiveContent.js inside of it.

Rich

#4 09-06-2008, 08:04 AM

That's not correct. A root relative link to the SWF works fine.

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"Cory C." <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Some of the basics with SWF's is that the SWF 'FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf'
> has to be in the same location as the HTML page
> http://www.petersenfamily.net/testvideo.html.
>
> Are they?

#5 09-06-2008, 08:07 AM

Your problem is with this file -

http://www.petersenfamily.net/FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf

It doesn't work. What is it supposed to do? Stream a Flash video?

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"FishWagon" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> Sorry for what may be a newb question, but I'm fooling around with
> embedding a
> flash video file and absolutly nothing shows on the page either in preview
> or
> published form. All files are in the same directory as the page.
>
> Here is a link:
>
> http://www.petersenfamily.net/testvideo.html
>
> Anyone have any ideas? First time trying this.....seemed easy enough,
> famous
> last words....haha
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>

#6 09-06-2008, 09:46 AM

Hi.

I think that the problem is your flv video, perhaps is corrupted. Try to
encode again your video.

"FishWagon" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> escribió en el mensaje de
noticias news:g9shrv$f88$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hello all,
>
> Sorry for what may be a newb question, but I'm fooling around with
> embedding a
> flash video file and absolutly nothing shows on the page either in preview
> or
> published form. All files are in the same directory as the page.
>
> Here is a link:
>
> http://www.petersenfamily.net/testvideo.html
>
> Anyone have any ideas? First time trying this.....seemed easy enough,
> famous
> last words....haha
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>

#7 09-06-2008, 03:16 PM

Miguel posted in macromedia.dreamweaver:

> Hi.
>
> I think that the problem is your flv video, perhaps is corrupted.
> Try to encode again your video.

Some older flv encoders do not place the correct MetaData in the file.
AMA_Races_Road_Atlanta_Aug2008.flv is definitely missing MetaData.

There is a free Windows program that can fix this problem, flvmdi
http://www.buraks.com/flvmdi/

After I ran the file through flvmdi, everything worked fine on my local
system.

FishWagon, if you're not comfortable with the command line, get both
flvmdi294exe.zip and flvmdigui105.zip from the downloads section of
that page.

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#8 09-06-2008, 04:54 PM

Thanks everyone.....

Miguel and Mark were right. I recently upgraded to Pinnacle Studio 12, and
that should have told me something......I guess I didn't have enough coffee
that day...

Mark, thanks for the program info and link, that fixed it fine.

Appreciate all the help everyone....

Rich

#9 09-06-2008, 05:18 PM

FishWagon posted in macromedia.dreamweaver:

> Thanks everyone.....
>
> Miguel and Mark were right. I recently upgraded to Pinnacle
> Studio 12, and that should have told me something......I guess I
> didn't have enough coffee that day...

Hmm. Guess I'll revise my memory to avoid "older" when speaking about
flv encoders omitting MetaData.

> Mark, thanks for the program info and link, that fixed it fine.

You're welcome.

> Appreciate all the help everyone....

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