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For some reason, Firefox won’t play movies displayed through a “shadowbox” on my client’s site. However, if the page displayed in the shadowbox is loaded on its own, it plays just fine.

Site with shadowboxes
Shadowbox page displayed on its own

Any thoughts on this?

/André

Not sure if this would solve it but have you tried setting the wmode to transparent?

Alas yes, but with the same result.

Here’s the code I’m using, which is embedded using {embed=""} into another template. I’ve tried it standalone with the same result, so it’s not because of the embed.

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="580" height="326" id="pointbreakPlayer">
                
                
                
                
                <!--[if !IE]>-->
                <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/flash/PointbreakPlayer.swf" width="580" height="326">
                    
                    
                    
                <!--<![endif]-->
                    <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">_                        <a href="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif">http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif</a>_                    </a>
                <!--[if !IE]>-->
                </object>
                <!--<![endif]-->
            </object>

Hm..When I right click on it FF recognizes that it is flash. Could it be the path to the movie that is causing the issue?

Hmm, don’t seem to be the problem. Using Firebug, it says that the movie is loading into the player, but the player won’t actually play it unless I refresh the window - then it works like a charm!
And everything works fine in both Safari and Chrome.

I just found this on the JW site.

http://bit.ly/gRFDj3

It looks like this might be a known bug for the JW player…

Hmm, only problem is that I’m not using the JW Player.
However, it might be possible that the Flash developer who built the player based it on the same technolgy as the JW one.
I’ll definitely check this out! I’ll let you know how it went asap.

Ah sorry. Not sure why I thought it was the JW player. My bad..

No worries, thanks all the same.
I found a couple of threads regarding similar issues, such as this one:
http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forums/jw-player/setup-issues-and-embedding/10148/flv-player-works-in-ie-but-not-in-firefox

Seems it might have to do with the MIME-type. I’m looking into that with my server host as we speak (write).
As you can see from the screen shot, the MIME-type sent does seem a bit off…

Oh bummer…no luck. Firebug says that the MIME-type is indeed set to ‘video/f4v’, but the problem still occurs…

Back to the drawing table.

Any luck on this?

Alas I haven’t had time to look further into this, but I expect to do so again come february.
If you think of something, please please please don’t hesitate to write!
Thanks for your input so far 😊