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1. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
Sudarshan Thiagarajan Apr 1, 2013 11:06 PM (in response to DenverPhotographics)Do you have a video file that is actually played by your SWF file? Some sort of avi, mp4, flv etc..?? I'm assuming you do because your SWF file is only 70~ KB and there is no other link to a video file from your source code.
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2. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
DenverPhotographics Apr 1, 2013 11:07 PM (in response to Sudarshan Thiagarajan)Yes, I have a file in the root directory called DenverPhotographics.flv Is it just not linking properly? Why would it work in live view and preview?
Thanks!
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3. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
Sudarshan Thiagarajan Apr 1, 2013 11:08 PM (in response to DenverPhotographics)The 2nd part of your question - What format is best, I'd suggest you consider HTML5 and not Flash. Flash will not play on smartphones/ tablet devices. There are so many HTML5 video players out there, 2 of them I'd recommend:
You may have to give 2 or 3 files in various formats for cross-browser compatibility. Read here for more details: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp
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4. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
Sudarshan Thiagarajan Apr 1, 2013 11:09 PM (in response to DenverPhotographics)In Flash, did you 'Embed' video or 'Link' video?
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5. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
Preran Apr 1, 2013 11:13 PM (in response to DenverPhotographics)Hi,
I found a similar thread that could help you SWF file won't play in browser The last thread in the discussion has a solution that could probably help you. I am not sure if this is the perfect solution, but posting it nevertheless.
In case anybody wants to know, I figured out my own problem.
My HTML file was in the root directory.
My swfobject was in a folder in the root directory called "js".
My swf and accompanying files were in a folder in the root directory called "swf".
Apparently, swfobject doesn't like that my swf was in its own folder. It needs it to be in the exact same place as your HTML folder.
In hind sight, I'm sure if I had read the Javascript code in the swfobject.js file I likely would have figured it out, but at 4am, logic doesn't always prevail.
Hope this helps somebody out.
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6. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
DenverPhotographics Apr 1, 2013 11:23 PM (in response to Sudarshan Thiagarajan)I don't think I did. I am extremely new to anything outside fo PS and Illustrator. I appreciate the help. I do like the HTML5 video though. I will make new video.
How can I either float this video over another image (the distressed background) or make a video with this image in the background? What would be the best program? Premier? After Effects?
Thanks!
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7. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
DenverPhotographics Apr 1, 2013 11:24 PM (in response to Preran)hmm, my object is in the main folder. Thanks though!
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8. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
Sudarshan Thiagarajan Apr 1, 2013 11:35 PM (in response to DenverPhotographics)Can you get rid of the .swf file and try to import your FLV file from within DW directly to see if it works? Insert > Media > FLV
How can I either float this video over another image (the distressed background) or make a video with this image in the background? What would be the best program? Premier? After Effects?
I don't quite understand that. Could you please explain in more detail?
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9. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
Sudarshan Thiagarajan Apr 1, 2013 11:39 PM (in response to DenverPhotographics)I realized you're on GoDaddy servers. You may want to double-check with GoDaddy support that they allow FLV videos to be played.
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10. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
DenverPhotographics Apr 1, 2013 11:40 PM (in response to Sudarshan Thiagarajan)I can import the flv directly and it works. The problem is that I want to have the video with that black distressed black background.
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11. Re: .swf video file won't play in browser. Will play in live view & prev. What type of video is best?
Sudarshan Thiagarajan Apr 2, 2013 12:06 AM (in response to DenverPhotographics)Just take that background box container (grunge background) and put it as a background-image for a div. Insert your FLV into that DIV. Something like this:
HTML:
<div id="videocontainer">
Your FLV will come here
</div>
CSS:
#videocontainer{
background-image: url(path/to/your/image.jpg);
width: 500px;
height: 400px;
}
Change background-image path, width and height to match.



