I have some Flash banners in my website and a few GIFs. Several days ago I noticed that the Flash is not working when browsing with Chrome. When browsing with IE all is ok.
This is the link to my website: http://batgalim.org.il/
This is an image describing the problem. Marked with red Xs are the missing banners
http://batgalim.org.il/banners_problem.jpg
This looks like a recent bug in chrome, per this bug report.
It hasn't been solved, but as I suspected, one user is reporting that a workaround is to use SWF Object to embed Flash on your page. It's really the best route to take anyway, it solves a lot of common problems with embedding Flash... at some point even Adobe made SWF object the default way to embed Flash apps (when using Flash Builder).
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I've been reading several articles on the web saying that Flash will no longer be supported. I'm a little bit confused about this: does it mean that Chrome / Firefox / IE etc will not run any Flash (swf) contents anymore? What happens with all the SWF files that are running at this very moment, will they stop showing?
I don't really know. I thought it meant they weren't going to update it anymore but hopefully, they don't stop using it because I have an entire website that runs off of flash.
Using froogaloop (the js api provided by vimeo) I was able to play two videos at the same time on desktop and android phone but this isn't working on ipad.
It's a video of someone commenting the first video so I also need the first video to be muted (also ok on desktop and android phone).
On ipad, it seems like the first video shortly enters the playing state and stops when the second starts, as if there were an hard-coded limitation on the player that prevent both videos from playing at the same time.
Ipad is also the only platform where I see the "undock" button, which could explain the hard limitation.
Is there a way to play 2 videos at the same time, one muted, the other at full volume ?
First, vimeo has relased its new api recently and froogalops won't be maintained anymore, yet still working. I' don't know wether this release brings any changes in respect of ios
Second, your question is not super clear to me, as it seem you manage to do what you wanted, except on ipad (what ios version and what about other ios devices), while your title and your bottom line is
Is there a way to play 2 videos at the same time, one muted, the other at full volume ?
and not ? Is there a way to play two vimeo video at the same time on ipad or ios ?
Third, vimeo provides the posibility to add autopause=0 in the url of your embeded video, this prevent the vimeo video curently playing to be paused when another one is started.
It works on desktop and android but haven't tried the behaviour on ipad yet as Ì don't have one in hand at the moment.
Finally, after some seach, it seems that this question may be asked regarding ios at large, and not solely ipad, and in this respect this post might be usefull for you
Not sure if it helps, as your post is 7 month old, but if you provide your code I may give a second try.
Cheers
I'm having issues with firefox 17.0.1 on a Windows OS on loading multiple Vimeo videos.
It's a weird bug that I cannot figure out, it only seems to be able to replicated using this operating system and browser.
The problem is there are many videos embedded using Vimeo, and it only seems to load the first two videos, then a little more down the page it loads some black boxes.
Just wondering if anyone else has the same issue, and a possible fix.
AFAIK, Firefox intentionally runs only Flash objects that are visible (and runs other ones when they become visible during scrolling). This is for performance reasons.
My question of the day is: in the same way a UIWebView on XCode behaves, is it possible to embed a website or browser window in an Adobe Flash movie? Like an iframe, but within Flash itself.
Is this even technically possible? Do I even want to attempt this?
Thanks in advance.
The true answer is no.
But there are workarounds, one of them is the Flex Iframe mentioned above.
The workaround is based on a real iFrame rendered by JavaScript above the Flash and smart communication between Flash and that JavaScript.
The big drawback though is the wmode=opaque you have to use in order to enable anything to render above the Flash. There are accessibility issues, performance issues and even stability issues associated with the opaque mode, however sometimes you got to do what you got to do.
Check my question on this topic, especially note the Adobe Flash Player Bug and Issue link, do some investigation first to make sure it won't kill your project.
It would seem that it is possible. I have come across a few examples in the past, but never done it myself.
This link might help you with your research...
http://code.google.com/p/flex-iframe/
as might this, which has an explanation and further links...
http://www.deitte.com/archives/2008/07/dont_use_iframe.htm
I don't know how up to date this content is though.
I'm setting up a website which ultimately displays videos. The video files are all .mpg and requirements prevent me from converting these to another format such as flv. So far I have been playing around with Windows Media Player but have found that it doesn't play nice with non IE browsers. The problem which arises is that although the video will play, it doesn't shrink itself to fit in the WMP container and so only the top corner is visible. This problem goes away if I download the np-mswmp plugin for Firefox however it is a manual install and I'd rather not leave it to the user. Once the Firefox plugin is installed, Chrome also plays the files correctly but I doubt that the average user would ever think to do this.
Is there a better way to embed .mpg files into a web page, an alternative player which doesn't require file conversion? I have had a play with Quicktime but it only ever shows a Q with a question mark imposed over it, even when I associate Quicktime with .mpeg files. Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks,
James
I'm sorry to say there isn't a good way to do cross-browser video without being able to force your users to install something. That is why every video site uses flash, since it's the nearest thing to a standard - but of course flash has some gaps in coverage, the most significant being iPhones.
Windows Media Player has only about 70% penetration and Internet Explorer somewhat less. By going this route you will end up with 1 in 3 users unable to view your videos.
Either bite the bullet and move to Flash as a video player or just give your users a download link. A download link is a very easy way to support almost every user, if you can do that.