Adobe Community: Films wont play from the swf file when sent using dropbox?

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1. Manish-Sharma,

Apr 24, 2012 3:39 AM in reply to lmcewen30

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Zip the file using any utility and then upload the complate package on dropbox.

Also Do not open the file direcdtly from dropbox , download the file and then check.

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2. Petteri_Paananen,

Apr 24, 2012 5:08 AM in reply to Manish-Sharma

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SWF files exported from InDesign should work just fine in Dropbox....

InDesign export 3 items for you, actual SWF file, html-wrapper file and resources folder (if you have placed videos etc, media clips). Copy those 3 itsems to your Dropbox´s Public folder. Then navigate there and right-click (or ctrl-click in mac) html-wrapper file and choose Copy Public URL to clipboard. Then go to your browser and paste URL to address bar.

Check this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17227987/edocker-online-demo/index.html

There´s a video on page 3

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3. lmcewen30,

Apr 24, 2012 9:51 AM in reply to lmcewen30

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I am still having the same problem, the films I have are in a F4V format. Could that be something to do with it?

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4. Petteri_Paananen,

Apr 24, 2012 9:58 AM in reply to lmcewen30

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can you throw us a link?

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5. lmcewen30,

Apr 25, 2012 7:23 AM in reply to lmcewen30

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yes here is the public link from my drop box http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34636158/portfolio1.html.

Pages transition from light to dark and space definition films are the ones that have films on them. I click on the film to play and it just disappears. there are a few other pages where films are meant to be but it just leaves an empty space.

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6. Petteri_Paananen,

Apr 25, 2012 11:02 AM in reply to lmcewen30

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Safari says that they are missing (ei löydy means missing):

Are you sure you have that portfolio1_Resources folder in your dropbox. InDesign does not include your videos to exported SWF. They are external files which will be streamed at runtime. Flash Player assumes that they are stored to that resources folder and it has to be stored to same root with SWF itself. If that´s not the case, Flash Player can not stream&show your videos.

Another problem I see about those videos is naming - never use any other characters than a-z or numbers 0-9 or underscore. So even empty spaces will cause you harm. Most of the names of your videos contains at least empty spaces.

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7. lmcewen30,

Apr 25, 2012 11:39 AM in reply to lmcewen30

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ok i think that was where i was going wrong because dropbox was not letting me upload the portfolio1_Resources folder, I uploaded the files one by one. Is it possible to upload a folder onto dropbox? I cannot get it to upload.

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8. Petteri_Paananen,

Apr 25, 2012 11:47 AM in reply to lmcewen30

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When you install dropbox to your computer, installer creates a folder called Dropbox to your harddrive. Whatever you put into that folder will be synced immediately to Dropbox server. And there´s a subfolder called Public as well. Content of that folder is visible to everyone you share your URLs.

You can copy and move files and folders there just like you did to any folder in your computer.

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9. Manish-Sharma,

Apr 25, 2012 11:48 AM in reply to lmcewen30

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As said in the first post....

put the file in the folder.

Compress the folder using the utility like winzip, winrar or 7zip....

Upload the compressed folder on dropbox and then check

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10. lmcewen30,

Apr 25, 2012 12:00 PM in reply to lmcewen30

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Its all working great now. Thanks for your help.

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11. Petteri_Paananen,

Apr 25, 2012 12:27 PM in reply to Manish-Sharma

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if you compress the folder, SWF is not possible to read with web-browser... which I think is the case here...

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