I have a flash file on my server and I am trying to open it on my browser. If I call for it directly, it downloads the file. If I embed it in html file and then call the html file, it does not display the flash file. Is there any other way to access it without converting flash file into any other format?
Following is my code in html:-
<html>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab" width="498" height="380" id="test1">
<param name="movie" value="game.swf" />
<embed src="game.swf" width="498"
height="380" name="test1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</html>
It sounds to me that your web server is not configured to serve SWF's (aka: it doesn't know what it is). This is typical on barebones IIS installations. Therefore, it forces a "download file" header when you request the file.
Check your web server config to ensure it is allowing SWF files to be served.
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I am maintaining an HTML help system where assets have recently been split apart from HTML documents. I'm noticing that videos that will play when loaded from a local subfolder will not play when loaded from a sibling folder.
Here's a much reduced example: webroot/dir/a.html contains:
<html><body>
Here's a video:<p>
<object id="mediaPlayer" width="640" height="480"
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
type="application/x-oleobject">
<param name="fileName" value="../siblingdir/xxx.wmv">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/"
id="mediaPlayer" name="mediaPlayer"
src="../siblingdir/xxx.wmv">
</object>
</body></html>
Even though webroot/siblingdir contains xxx.wmv, the video will not play.
HOWEVER, if I drop the two "../siblingdir" elements in the above code and store the video in the same folder as the web page, the video will play.
Images will load from a sibling directory.
Can the video be made to play from a sibling folder? It this a security setting? Is it something that can be enabled or disabled?
Test platform is MSIE 11 on Windows 7 Enterprise.
<object id="mediaPlayer" width="640" height="480"
type="application/x-oleobject" data="../siblingdir/xxx.wmv">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
id="mediaPlayer" name="mediaPlayer"
src="../siblingdir/xxx.wmv"/>
</object>
It is best if you publish your web page to a web server (localhost) or if you are using the local file system, publish your video files to the same windows folder as your source html file. Adjust the Advanced tab of Internet Options to "Allow active content in files on my computer to run.". eg. src="xxx.wmv"
Help needed.
I have a .swf file of a flash game created using AS3. I have added it to a HTML file using object tag. When I test file locally in a browser window on my MAC it plays .swf file. The file is contained in the same folder as html file. When I upload it to server and review on FF/Chrome/Safari it will only display white boxes.
Previously I tried using jquery swfobject, same issue.
I've stripped down the code to bear minimun and used to different examples found online and am having no luck.
Code Sample:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<object
classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash /swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0">
<param name="SRC" value="BodyShopGame.swf">
<embed src="BodyShopGame.swf"></embed>
</object>
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="339" height="513">
<param name="movie" value="BodyShopGame.swf">
<embed src="BodyShopGame.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="339" height="513"></embed>
</object>
</body>
</html>
Site Link: http://www.stellacurley.com/flashtest.html
I've also tested on a PC and issue is the same. I know I have overlooked something obvious but have spent a long time trying to figure out the answer. I'm new to this, so any help would be much appreciated thanks.
A white box commonly indicates the movie failed to load. Use your browser's developer console to see if the request for the SWF is returning a 404 (file not found) error.
Checklist:
Ensure you're using the correct path to the SWF
Ensure your SWF has been uploaded
Ensure your SWF is properly named (case-sensitive on some servers)
Ensure your server is configured to host SWF files (mime type application/x-shockwave-flash should be enabled)
I embedded flowplayer on an html page using the following <object tag .It successfully plays the mentioned video from their site (ie from url http://stream.flowplayer.org/KimAronson-TwentySeconds1318.flv
However,I would like to play a video from my local filesystem. say /home/me/videos/test.flv
How do I mention the url in this case? What baseurl ,url values should I provide?
<object width="320" height="200" id="undefined" name="undefined"
data="http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.10.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="movie" value="http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.10.swf" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="flashvars" value='config={"clip":{"baseUrl":"http://stream.flowplayer.org","url":"http://stream.flowplayer.org/KimAronson-TwentySeconds1318.flv"},"canvas":{"backgroundColor":"#112233"},"plugins":{"controls":{"time":false,"volume":true,"fullscreen":false},"content":{"url":"flowplayer.content-3.2.8.swf"}}}' />
</object>
You cannot directly ask the flowplayer to load a file from your local file system. Think about all this flash (swf) files trying to load this file from a remote server, they just cannot simply use whatever in your file system as a resource.
The easiest way to test it out is set up a local server. Be it Apache, IIS, or whatever server you like or easy for you. And then change the config's url to the video's url on your local server, which will solve your problem.
You don't need to change any thing for baseUrl as this is where all this flowplayer flash files being loaded. For example, the content url in your provided code will be baseurl + content.url => http://stream.flowplayer.org/flowplayer.content-3.2.8.swf.
However, once you put your page into production, you may need to consider about hosting this flash files locally to avoid fetch the remote flowplayer server every time. In that case, you need to change the baseUrl to whatever the new server should be.
I embed a video in html page with swf file. that is running on local host but when i run this on live server. than it dosent work properly.
I link flv video in swf file and embed it in html.
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','600','height','338','title','testing','src','Edit_video/9vi/home-page2','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','Edit_video/9vi/home-page2' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="600" height="338" title="testing">
<param name="movie" value="Edit_video/9vi/home-page2.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="Edit_video/home-page2.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="338"></embed>
</object></noscript>
These two urls don't match:
<param name="movie" value="Edit_video/9vi/home-page2.swf" />
<embed src="Edit_video/home-page2.swf" ... />
running on local host but when i run this on live server
One reason for that can be careless handling of case.
Windows native filesystems you are case-insensitive, so you can refer to Edit_video and if the real name of the directory is actually edit_video with a small e it doesn't care. But if you then upload it to a server running a case-sensitive filesystem (like most Linux hosts), that won't work any more; the two are different filenames and won't match.
Additionally you need to ensure that the file system on your local server matches that of your live server.
I.e. make sure that the file path
Edit_video/9vi/home-page.swf
is valid from where the HTML is being stored online.
I created a custom video skin for my movie, and published the swf. The file plays on my Mac (using Flash player v9) but it will not play on my PC (using Flash player 10). When I uploaded it to the host, neither players will play the swf. The bitmaps in the flash file show up, but the movie won't play. I don't know if it is how I exported it or what, but it will not play! Any Idea why this is happening?
The video is hosted here:
http://hqinternetsolutions.com/YOGIPATCH/index.html
Here is my Actionscript:
flvPlayback.playPauseButton = playpausebtn;
flvPlayback.muteButton = mutebtn;
flvPlayback.volumeBar = volbar;
flvPlayback.seekBar = seekbar;
And my HTML embedded flash:
<div id="movie">
<object id="movie" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="440" height="273">
<param name="movie" value="file.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="file.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="440"
height="273"></embed></object>
</div>
Just had a look using Firebug. Your swf appears to be referencing the following URL:
http://hqinternetsolutions.com/Users/larrykain/Desktop/flash%20skin/fullaquatic.flv
It's returning a 404 so it can't find the file. Looking at the URL, check the reference to how you've embedded it in the swf file.
This might be caused by different things:
Make sure the flv file is uploaded to the server along with the SWF.
Your FLV file might be blocked on the web server. Make sure it's not by pointing your browser to the actual FLV file directly (example: http://hqinternetsolutions.com/YOGIPATCH/myvideo.flv)
The flv path set in the FLVPlayback component might be too long.
Try adding a preceding / to the path of FLV in the component.