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Narcism
06-04-2007, 09:51 PM
Hi all,

I've screamed, I've yelled, I've tried everything in the book to try to fix this problem. Google and forums have yielded no result.

I was doing some dynamic content in javascript and my swf file refuses to show up, eventually I narrowed all my problems down to the following. Here is the simplest sequence of events that yields the problem:

-created an *.flv movie file
-created an *.fla/*.swf file with FLVplayback
-created a custom skin, changed the skin path and flv path in the component inspector
-using dreamweaver, created the html file and inserted the swf

Now, this all works on the computer with flash 8 player (firefox and safari), but refuses to work on my computer with flash 9 player (firefox and IE)

The strange thing is, this was working prior to the weekend, and I have no idea what I could have possibly changed that could prevent this from working.

I checked:
-path/pathing (I created the files on a shared drive, renamed them, and created them again)
-browsers
-a js implementation
-different swfs (my XXXX_player.swf skin loads fine)

Note: The flv is 600+kb but the file is located on the network, I doubt that's the problem.


Anyone possibly have any ideas?

Narcism
06-06-2007, 01:58 PM
It was an flv mime-type issue.
The FLV was simply not loading, regardless of the code.

Found the solution here:
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/c/engineering/archives/adding-flv-mime-type-in-iis-4198