Flash and Shockwave Forum

First thing, if you are viewing it in IE and off line (not on the web site) IE will give you a warning about active scripting, which you have to accept before the Javascript will run. If you don't get this warning, you may have it disabled - check it in FireFox, if you haven't.

Next I'd view the source of the page, see if there are path issues breaking it.

I'll say as I've always said - the MM/Adobe "publish" methods are horribly outdated and dysfunctional. First you have this

<object>
<embed>
</object>

Which is invalid html, an embed inside an object. This is because Moz browsers don't work well with the object only, and IE will display both if you put the embed outside object. So this was done years ago to "trick" both browsers into just working.

Ok now the video won't play at all either way so I started over. Let me also mention that I use AS3.0 Not sure if that was wise.

1. Import mp4 video to stage
2. Select Load External Video with playback component

.swf or html now showing video on source machine but on another machine I still see the same problem. All files copied into one folder.

This other machine uses Firefox 3.5.6 which has Flash Player 10.0.42.34 installed. It doesn't matter if I click on the .swf or html I still see no video. Only player control and some sorta working animation...

- working fine on development computer
- moved entire folder contents to a different computer
- broken

This has to be a path issue OR some resource being used on the development computer that is not present on the remote computer. This is also why I simply refuse to use components, which may make it easier but relies on various items. . . )

Another possibility is the flash player version: make sure when you publish, check the publish settings for the player version, and make sure it's the same on the remote one (or better, which sounds like it's covered.)

The fact that the .swf alone won't play eliminates any embed problems.

One way to gather clues: make absolutely sure the path info is exactly the same on both. So if you store it in C:\\projectname\flash\project on the original, duplicate this structure on computer 2. If it works, there is some hard coded path in your original somehow.

If not,>>Search help in Flash for dependency or dependencies and look for any video topics that come up.<<

Thanks for help so far.

Yes I see that option for .flv

Pretty tall order. I will try and follow it when I get back and update post.

Thanks so very much.

I thank everyone so very much for trying to help me with this.

I will start a new thread because I am having some problems at the moment.

Thanks again so very much folks.