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Hello,

Im trying to get a flv video player to work.

The swf loads in ok its just the video that wont seem to load.

Iv tried using swf object and embed tags but neither will work.

Its using AS2 and Flash CS3

Any help greatly appreciated.

I’d say swfobject is loading the swf just fine, if I paste the swf url in a separate window I see exactly the same as what is being embedded.

I’d check if the links to the videos are correct in Flash CS3…

every time i do flash in a dynamic environment that requires an external file, like flv, xml, or some such, something almost always goes awry. check your paths. don’t assume that just because flash and the xml are in the same directory that the path will be relative to the flash. if i remember correctly, it’s relative to the page url. milage can very though depending on what embed method you are using.

Hiya TheStig,

I could be wrong as it might be due to the way your .swf file has been coded, no way of knowing so just guessing at this point but when I visited the link that you have posted above the link to the .flv file is coming up as :

link removed at request of initial poster

When I point my browser to that URL the file doesn’t seem to exist and just pops up with your site instead. Are you sure that is the correct URL for your .flv file first of all?

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks for the replies guys.

It was a bug ( i think)in Flash. I switched over to the jeroen player and it worked fine.

Glad you have it all sorted now.

Best wishes,

Mark