3 Replies Latest reply: Jan 10, 2012 5:18 AM by Rob Dillon RSS

    FLV Player Disappears When Site is Published

    PeteGould Community Member

      Greetings all,

       

      I'm pretty much a newbie, so be gentle.  :-)

       

      I'm working on a Flash site template downloaded from TemplateMonster.com (it's an AS2 template) and had to make some modifications to it, including adding the basic FLVplayer device to play back a video "demo reel" within the site.

       

      When I do a Publish Preview as a swf, the whole site works perfectly.  However, when I either do a Publish Preview as html or if I actually publish the site as html, the area where the player device should appear is blank.

       

      A further clue is that if I do a Publish Preview to an swf and it plays fine within the Flash Professional CS5.5 environment, if I double-click on that same swf so it tries to play using just the player, the video player screen is also blank.  So apparently there's some missing component that I failed to add somehow, that is needed for the FLVplayer device to show up outside the development environment.

       

      If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be very appreciative!  (BTW - please take "newbie" seriously and if there's some chunk of AS2 that needs to be added, please explain it at the idiot level).

       

      Many thanks in advance!

       

      Pete

        • 1. Re: FLV Player Disappears When Site is Published
          Rob Dillon CommunityMVP

          You probably need to put a copy of the FLVPlayback component in your movie's Library. Go to the Windows menu, Select the Components window. When that opens, select the FLVPlayback component and drag a copy to your movie's Library.

          • 2. Re: FLV Player Disappears When Site is Published
            PeteGould Community Member

            Hi Rob,

             

            Well, I verified that the FLVPlayback component was NOT already in the movie's library, so I added it as you described.  Unfortunately that didn't make a difference.  Just to make sure, I removed the playback component that I had already placed on the page and dragged the newly-added FLVPlayback component from the window to the page and reconnected it to the media.  It plays fine as a publishing preview, as it did before, but not once published.

             

            Here's a STUPID question but I wonder if I'm chasing my tail.  Once published, will it play off the local drive, or does it have to be uploaded to a web server?  I'm trying to play it off the local drive.

             

            Pete

            • 3. Re: FLV Player Disappears When Site is Published
              Rob Dillon CommunityMVP

              Yes, you will need to upload the needed files to the server. If you are using an external .flv file, then be sure to upload that file to the server also.