I have a .flv video that I want to play within a web page. I created simple
flash that uses the FLVPlayback component and set the file location which was
in a subdirectory called Samples. I loaded it up on our server and it worked
fine. Now we have a new server that we moved the code to and it no longer
works. The page loads and the FLVPlayback loads with the skin, but then it
just sits there trying to load the flv file. I'm new to this so I'm stumped
with why it doesn't work. All the files are there.
My html, swf file are in the same main directory, and the .flv file is in one
directory below. I've tried changing the path to the .flv file in the
parameters. But nothing works. It finds the proper skin .swf file OK which is
in the same directory.
I've tried reading through other posts and the only other thing I see that
could be wrong is that I can't access the .flv file through the browser using a
URL. Does that matter?
The new server uses Windows SBS Server 2003, which the old server was 2000.
I'm not sure of any other differences between the servers to know if its the
server that has a problem with security settings?
I did see about setting the server to recognize the MIME type flv. Will that
fix this? I can get this tested until tomorrow when the server people are in.
I no longer have URL browser access to the development server to see if I used
to be able to access the flv file by the browser on the old server.
Im using Flash CS3 and publishing to flash player 9. I tried both settings
for "local playback security" as I was wondering if for some reason it thought
the .flv file was on a different domain and wouldn't load it.
I'd appreciate any help on this. Originally we were using the FlowPlayer
from flowplayer.org and that didn't work when we transferred to the new server.
So I tried to make my own player.
I can't embed the video into the .swf because then the sound and video don't
match up and its a video of a person talking.
Thanks!
Rhonda
