problem publishing embedded video

[hwormser]

I think I'm going crazy. I'm working on a project in Flash 8 that has several pieces. Each file has a video (FLV file) that has to be embedded and published to Flash 7. Everything was going along smoothly, but occasionally, on publishing my swf I would get an error: "VP6 Codec requires Flash Player 8 or higher." For a while, I could just start over, open a new file, embed the video and it would work. But today nothing I do is working. I get this error every time. Even if I import an FLV file that worked yesterday, today I get an error when I publish the swf.

So far as I know, when you embed a video, you don't have a choice of codec, so I don't see how I can change this. Has anyone seen this problem? Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong or how I can get around it?

[XDudedotcom]

It's there. Click "Show Advanced," and you'll have the choice between VP6 and Sorenson Spark.

[hwormser]

Sorry for being an idiot, but I don't see any "Show Advanced". Should this be on the menus that I get when I import the video? I've seen advanced settings when I embed video that is in AVI format, but these are FLV files.

[XDudedotcom]

Ah. Well there's your problem. Where are you getting these?

[hwormser]

They are being supplied to me by my client. The strange thing is that I was able to embed an FLV file yesterday. But today, if I try to embed the same file, it doesn't work -- I get the codec error. I can't think of anything I'm doing differently. I've even tried taking one of the Flash files that was working, deleting the FLV file and then reimporting it and I get the error.

[XDudedotcom]

Right. The FLVs are obviously Flash 8 (VP6). You'll have to ask your client to re-encode them for MX compatibility.