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Hey folks,
I know this has been discussed in a couple of other discussions, but even after following all the advice, I am going insane and have wasted 10 hours and counting...
The issue is that I am producing SCORM actvities for Moodle:
1. Creating an activity in Captivate 4 - no probs
2. Importing as an activity into Moodle - no probs
3. Playing in Moodle - no probs except for the FLVs do not show up. No error message, just a blank screen where the video should be
I have tried all of the following, and it has not helped:
- Used relative paths, in fact, kept the videos in the same folder as the swf for safety (ie, in Captivate, the path is just "video.flv").
- Tried absolute paths as well as paths to a server URL
- ensured no special characters in video name
- ensured meta data present in video
- set the MIME type on the server
- confirmed that all file uploaded and unzipped successfully
- Tried it with Moodle filters enabled and disabled
For additional sanity:
- submitted to SCORM Test Track - I can see the video there
- played the swf directly from my server - I can see the video there
Argghhhh! Any ideas?
Thanks, Chris

I can appreciate that not being able to get your FLVs working after spending so much time is very frustrating.
My suggestion for debugging this is to try and see what path the server is looking at when trying to find and serve up the FLV video. You could try downloading Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com/download/) and use this to try and view the actual file path of the request for the FLV when called. If the file path is correct, then your issue may be related to security permissions.
Have you set up a replica Moodle TEST environment on your own development machine? Does the same package and FLV work when you test via Localhost? If it does, then my bet would be some restriction in the setup of your production Moodle server or the web server it's running on, or permissions on the folder where the FLVs are being served from.

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