cant get video to play in flash

[urbaneve]

okay heres the thing -- i have a video in .wmv and i have converted it to .flv -- but when i put in my web page i cant get it to play. i tried using the mediaplayback component but that didnt work either. (i am not sure if i needed scripting in the frames to make it work or on the the movie clip itself)

but anyhoo --- i dont want to embed it because it is 3.37MB and it would take forever to load.

is there a way for me to use the video without embedding it?

[wedmaster]

1,make sure the publish swf's version is higher than 6.0

2, make sure flash player version of your brower is higher than 6.0

3,check the flv path

[andyll]

You can't embed or stream flv files directly... if that's what you are doing.

Search on 'adding flv to website' and you'll find a couple of decent websites to guide you.

Andy

[PeterPiper]

There are a number of reasons why you may not be able to play the video and it can depend on how you've set up your video file to play.

So, without knowing specifics:

1 - If your video file (the .SWF file that calls the actual .FLV) is in a particular folder be sure the associated FLV file is in the same folder - with a FLV created Flash video: the .SWF acts as a header that call on the FLV to stream the actual video which is why, if you look at the size of the FLV, it will be much larger than its associated .SWF.

2 - If you created your video in Flash with an optional player Skin, to display the player's controls, it needs to be in the same folder as the .SWF (and FLV) - however, I've experienced issues where the skin will not display with the video (but the video itself does) and putting the skin (another .SWF file that gets created by FLASH if you used a skin) into the root folder of the website where the index file is.

Good luck!