Flash Movie appears blank on server

I'm new to using Flash Players with .flv files. When input
into a Dreamweaver page and previewed in a browser, the movie plays
fine but it doesn't work when uploaded to the server - I just get a
blank space there. I have uploaded the progressive player and skin
but still nothing. Can someone please take a look at the file and
let me know if they see something wrong. The file is located at
www.goworldpublishing.com/promoteyourhotelmodify.htm.
Thanks so much.

Thanks for your response. I don't currently have access to
the files that the page in question were created with. I did just
recreate my process and was able to upload a file and get it to
work:
http://home.comcast.net/~vzmiller.
So there are only two possible explanations that I can think of as
to why the original file doesn't work and why this one does work.
1. It has something to do with the server that the original
files are stored on or
2. The size of the .flv file that is used in the original
file (I think the .flv is over 20MB) is too large
Are there some servers that just can't play Flash Videos? Is
the .flv file size too large to work properly?
Thanks so much.

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<script language="javascript">
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alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.");
} else {
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'width', '480',
'height', '424',
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'play', 'false',
'loop', 'true',
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http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"
width="480" height="424" id="VidInAction" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param name="movie" value="VidInAction.swf"
/><param name="play" value="false" /><param
name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor"
value="#ffffff" /> <embed src="VidInAction.swf" play="false"
quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="480" height="424"
name="VidInAction" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/>
</object>
</noscript>

If I'm reading you correctly, I think that what you want is a lightbox type of effect where the Flash movie appears from out of nowhere above a dimmed page. If this is the case then you need to use Javascript to create this dynamic html effect. I use mediabox advanced. It works with Mootools. You can find more info here: http://code.google.com/mediabox/

Flash movie will not show or work on server???

Seems to be a popular thread here,,,,,
I have 3 web sites on my hosting server 1 has a small flash movie which works fine
i tried adding another to the 2 other sites and nothing !!!! Exactly the same thing as the one that works, the movie will not even show
on the screen that is its just bland usually you get a red x or something but nothing ???? Any ideas the puszzling thing is that the one site
it works fine on but the other two it doesn't. has there been an IE update that i am unaware of that might stop this gfrom working ????
i am at a loss here thank
M2m

The usual causes involve missing files or misnamed files. Can you provide links to the web pages that are not displaying properly?

Page won't display flash movie

Hi I just posted my website and I have a flash movie on the
page and when I render it in firefox from dreamweaver it shows up
fine but on the server it is blank.
The website is
www.silvereaglemarketing.com
here's the code
<script type="text/javascript">
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); //end AC code
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classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0"
width="800" height="120" title="machines_movie">
<param name="movie" value="Flash/machines1.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="Flash/machines1.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800"
height="120"></embed>
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Did you upload the Scripts folder that DW places in your
local site when you
insert Flash?
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> Hi I just posted my website and I have a flash movie on
the page and when
> I
> render it in firefox from dreamweaver it shows up fine
but on the server
> it is
> blank.
>
> The website is
>
> www.silvereaglemarketing.com
>
> here's the code
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> AC_FL_RunContent(
> 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
>
version=9,0,28,0','width','800','height','120','title','machines_movie','src','F
> lash/machines1','quality','high','pluginspage','
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/d
>
ownload/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','Flash/machines1'
> ); //end AC code
> </script><noscript><object
> classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=9,0,28,0" width="800" height="120"
title="machines_movie">
> <param name="movie" value="Flash/machines1.swf" />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <embed src="Flash/machines1.swf" quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Versio
> n=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
width="800"
> height="120"></embed>
> </object></noscript>
>

Two flash movies index problem while in different div

hi,
i have created a page and i use peelawayad file which is in
flash. i was already using two div on home page which contains
flash movies. but now when i placed peelawayad flash movie on home
page. it appears on bottom of both div layers. i tired my best with
stylesheet. z-index and many other tricks which i know best. but
still not able to sucess. can someone help me to getride of this
issue. help would be appriciated. thanks
here is the current site link which has the flash movies
embeded.
http://www.visionetsystems.com/test/
for movies already in home page has following tags and
script.
<script type="text/javascript">
var FO = { movie:"visionet/visionetindexbuttn2.swf",
width:"764", height:"41", majorversion:"8", build:"0",
id:"flashmovie", menu:"0", flashvars:"rootPath=/"};
UFO.create(FO, "quicklinks01");
</script>
<div id="quicklinks01" style="z-index:4;"><img
src="images/visionetindexbuttn2.jpg" width="764" height="41"
border="0" usemap="#Map3"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var FO = { movie:"swf/vsi_technology.swf", width:"764",
height:"229", majorversion:"8", build:"0", id:"flashmovie",
menu:"0", flashvars:"rootPath=/"};
UFO.create(FO, "casestudy");
</script>
<div id="casestudy" style="z-index:3;"><img
src="images/vsihome.jpg" width="764" height="229" border="0"
usemap="#Map2"></div>
and peelaway ad has the following JS file which create the
peelawayad on right top corner.
Das Copyright dieses Scriptes liegt beim Autor.
Bitte die Lizenzbedingungen beachten, und ausgefüllt
zurücksenden.
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line---------------FINISHED----STOP------------------------------------------------------ ----
esel.small_width = '100';
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esel.small_params = 'ico=' + esel.small_image;
esel.big_width = '650';
esel.big_height = '650';
esel.big_params = 'big=' + esel.big_image + '&ad_url=' +
esel.ad_url;
function sizeup987(){
document.getElementById('eselcornerBig').style.top = '0px';
document.getElementById('eselcornerSmall').style.t op =
'-1000px';
function sizedown987(){
document.getElementById("eselcornerSmall").style.t op =
"0px";
document.getElementById("eselcornerBig").style.top =
"-1000px";
esel.putObjects = function () {
document.write('<div id="eselcornerSmall"
style="position:absolute;width:'+ esel.small_width +'px;height:'+
esel.small_height +'px;z-index:5;right:0px;top:0px;">');
document.write('<object
classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
document.write('codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"');
document.write(' id="eselcornerSmallObject"
width="'+esel.small_width+'" height="'+esel.small_height+'">');
document.write(' <param name="allowScriptAccess"
value="always"/> ');
document.write(' <param name="movie" value="'+
esel.small_path +'?'+ esel.small_params +'"/>');
document.write(' <param name="wmode" value="transparent"
/>');
document.write(' <param name="quality" value="high" />
document.write(' <param name="FlashVars"
value="'+esel.small_params+'"/>');
document.write('<embed src="'+ esel.small_path + '?' +
esel.small_params +'" name="eselcornerSmallObject"
wmode="transparent" quality="high" width="'+ esel.small_width +'"
height="'+ esel.small_height +'" flashvars="'+ esel.small_params
+'" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>');
document.write('</object></div></script>');
document.write('<div id="eselcornerBig"
style="position:absolute;width:'+ esel.big_width +'px;height:'+
esel.big_height +'px;z-index:5;right:0px;top:0px;">');
document.write('<object
classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
document.write('codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"');
document.write(' id="eselcornerBigObject" width="'+
esel.big_width +'" height="'+ esel.big_height +'">');
document.write(' <param name="allowScriptAccess"
value="always"/> ');
document.write(' <param name="movie" value="'+
esel.big_path +'?'+ esel.big_params +'"/>');
document.write(' <param name="wmode"
value="transparent"/>');
document.write(' <param name="quality" value="high" />
document.write(' <param name="FlashVars" value="'+
esel.big_params +'"/>');
document.write('<embed src="'+ esel.big_path + '?' +
esel.big_params +'" id="eselcornerBigEmbed"
name="eselcornerBigObject" wmode="transparent" quality="high"
width="'+ esel.big_width +'" height="'+ esel.big_height +'"
flashvars="'+ esel.big_params +'" swliveconnect="true"
allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>');
document.write('</object></div>');
setTimeout('document.getElementById("eselcornerBig
").style.top = "-1000px";',1000);
esel.putObjects();
i am also attaching all files in zip with this thread.
Source
Zip File
thanks
Shahid Hussain

Hi users,
Thanks for reply.
Actually the problem is -
For portrait dimensions are -
width 20
height 30
for landscape , obviously it will be
width - 30
height - 20
Thus , for second page - table width is 20 while page width is 30 and so 10 cm space remains blank on right side of page
user says that right side should not be blank, rather you extend table width to whole page width.
thats where the problem is

Inserting Flash movies

I often insert .swf files in my html pages however, lately I
have been trying to insert flash movies in the middle of a bunch of
text. I do something similar with and then, using the property
inspector's align dialog box, I either set the image to be on the
right, the left, or one of the other options. By doing that, the
image looks the way I want it to with the text wrapping around it.
I see that the same type of options appear in the property
inspector when I insert a .swf file but I don't get the desired
result as I do with images. The only way I can fake the look I want
is by putting the flash movie in it's own cell in a table and
breaking up the text above,below or next to the movie the best way
that I can but this is not reliable and I sometimes end up with too
much white space. Is there a parameter I need to set or a style to
add to the swf object? I'd appreciate any suggestions.Thank
you.

This file is not on the server -
http://www.lacybayliss.com/Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js
but this one is -
http://www.lacybayliss.com/web/Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js
This means that your link is not properly made to the script
file in the
head of that page, OR that your site definition is not
correct.
<script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
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>I have two sites with this issue:
>
>
http://www.lacybayliss.com/web/index.html
>
> and
>
http://www.lacybayliss.com/espre/index.html
>
> thanks
>
>

Centering a flash movie within Dreamweaver cs3 on Y axis

I have published a movie in Flash cs3 which has generated an html document however the Flash movie is not automatically centered I have attempted to centrally align the movie within Dreamweaver cs3 by adding:
<center> after the opening body tag and </center> befor the closing body tag
This method has centered on the X axis but not the Y axis
I would have put in a table or a div tag, but when I open the html doc in Dreamweaver I have no visible repressentation of the Flash movie in the design view as I would have if I had created an html document from scratch and draged the movie onto the page, all I can see is the "get flash" hypertext and some other text. I did actually experiment by creating a div tag and dragged my movie into it but ended up with two movies one sitting on top of the other when I ran it in a browser lol. I'm quite intimdated by code and much prefer to work in the design view (wysiwyg and all that) which is quite restricting.
Any advice for centering on the Y axis would be much apreciated, Thanks in advance, Dave

I don't believe there is code to prevent this from happening
on a client computer. The default is enabled my Microsoft, what
should happen is a yellow bar should appear at the top of the
browser which will allow you view the content.
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call Multidmedia Limited www.multidmedia.com. Search the site for
samples, one of the samples is a Flash Browser this will run Flash
a browser that you can use. You will need to change the URL a bit
in the Flash code but it's very clear on how to do this.
What this will do is run your web site in a Flash browser I
did a quick test and I did not get any errors. The program will
create an EXE file. I also believe they have a MAC version if you
need one. With a simple "Autorun" call on the CD-ROM you could have
this up and running in not time.
Just be careful of how you call the pages. Since the web site
is not running from a Web server you need to make sure that your
links are local and not Site Root. The best way to test is to
disconnect your computer from your internet and see how it runs.
You want the CD to be self-contained and not have to get content
from the web (your end user may be on a laptop and not connected).
Good Luck

Failure to run a flash movie in IWeb

Hi All,
I've created a flash movie using Adobe Flash CS4, have gone through the procedure "by the book" following a how-to-do video [yes, I'm a novice!!].
I've published the file and produced the necessary files filename.swf, index.html, skinUnderAll.swf and a preview.jpg
OK, everything seemed OK, but try as I may, I cannot get the **** thing to run on iWeb via my me.com using this code in a HTML Snippet:
<IFRAME SRC = "http://idisk.me.com/MYUSERNAME/Web/Sites/flash/index.html" WIDTH="720px" HEIGHT="576px" FRAMEBORDER="0" --if "0" no border, otherwise "1" with border MARGINWIDTH ="0px" MARGINHEIGHT="0px" SCROLLING="no" --"no" no scrolling bar, "yes" show always, "auto" showed when need > Your browser does not support IFRAME </IFRAME>
"index.html" refers to the html that was produced by Flash CS4 and double clicking this runs the video.
For the life of me, I cannot understand where I'm going wrong & it's driving me nuts!
Can someone please check that code out & see what's wrong.... or is the prob elsewhere?
I've looked through
Any assistance most gratefully received!!
TonyT

Hi again, Roddy,
Many thanks for coming back on this one again... it's appreciated.
What's odd is that if I double-click on the original file called "redsea.html" file on my computer, the movie opens & runs OK, so I guess the html is OK. I've even "copied" or downloaded the file back onto my Mac and placed it in with the other related files and it loads & runs OK.
In answer to your question, if I change the target to a preview file (a .png image file) within the same directory, this opens in a browser window. So the path appears to be correct. However, if I target the "redsea.swf" file nothing happens other than a blank white window where the flash movie should be; albeit a correctly sized and positioned window.
This info may help further;_
What I did from from scratch, I created a short movie and used Adobe Flash CS4 to create all the necessary files and copied them over to my iDisk. The files included the redsea.swf, redsea.html, preview.png, the SkinUnderAll.swf & the .flv file associated with the flash movie. These were uploaded [http://web.me.com/myusername/flash/redsea.html].
I've then used the code below in a html snippet in iWeb, but the movie refuses to load.
If, however, I change the target to a preview file (a .png image file) within the same directory, this opens in a browser window. So, I guess this means that the path to be correct.
I don't understand why the .html file will not open in iWeb?
For more info, here's the code I used:-
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000" id="obj1" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#v ersion=10,0,40,0" border="0" width="720" height="576"><param name="movie" value="http://web.me.com/myusername/flash/redsea.html"><param name="quality" value="High"><embed src="http://web.me.com/myusername/flash/redsea.html" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="obj1" width="720" height="576"></object>
Any help most gratefully received!!
Tony

Flash movie looks different in some IE8 browsers

Hi All,
I have a website http://www.pestcontrolonline.com which looks fine in firefox, safari etc, but in some versions of IE 8 or 9 the flash movie looks wrong or doesn't display. For example the insect guide vertical scroller on the right hand side of the page goes out of alignment with the actual scroller scrolling out the top of the back ground image.
Also on the main page beneath the flash movie that shows the special offers is another flash movie that segments and rotates the image, on some browsers this doesn't show at all.
If the flash movies didn't show in any version of IE then i would assume that there was a problem cross browser wise, but in our office it shows on virtually all of our computers fine, except for two and all computers run the same browser version and connect to the internet via our company server. I have tried several things including re inserting the flash movies, but nothing really changes.
Any ideas or suggestions would be gratefully recieved.
Thanks
Lee

Altruistic, what happens when you click No? Does the error appear?
I ran the IE8 debugger to see if i could investigate further and I actually did not see the same thing you did.
I ran into problems with 3 things:
jquery.min.js
SpryData.js
It's reporting that certain variables are null or not objects
tabsandaccordions.js
says "object does not support this property or method", referring to this:
if($.cookie('/careercenter/menustate')) { $('#menu').accordion('activate', $('#' + $.cookie('/careercenter/menustate')).parent('h3')); };
Again, thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction. I'm really not sure what is going on. Is this something other than a compatibility issue?

How do I embed flash movie in MUSE?

I am trying to embed a Flash movie in a new page on my site. I want the Flash movie to open in a new page, full screen without header or footer. I have puploaded a page with the correct code (I think) . The page opens but remains blank. The swf movie file does not launch. The files work fine on my hard drive.

Jgrummel, I tried pasting in your code with the name of an audio file, but it did not work even when I published. My guess is that the file needs to ALREADY be on the server, but then I thought if that was the case, does the embed code have to have a folder reference? I am not a coder, so I am trying to figure out at random. Can you provide any step-by-step process for getting audio files to play in the background WITHOUT the player being seen or being loaded in another page? Is the only option to use a thrid party server, like youtube, BUT with that issue is that I get suck with player controls that I do not wnat and it does not loop.

Flash Movie in 6.1

In order to use the flv progressibe download, you have to put the flv out on the server in its final location first, then build your movie. After doing so, I tested the URL and all is well. After makinga web service , then a portlet, the portal appears to add http;//urltovideofolder in front of the video name, thus making the path wrong. Anyone putting Flash movies in their 6.1 portal?

Much of this depends on how the Flash file is setup, but I
would start
by using the gotoAndPlay command instead of gotoFrame:
on MouseUp me
sprite(1).gotoAndPlay(6)
end

Flash Movie Buttons Do Not Work (DW & FL CS3)

Hello,
I'm fairly confident in DW but still getting to grips with
Flash, however...
I created a flash movie from a small .wmv sample clip went
through the DW import and convert steps, chose the standard buttons
and published it!
The video worked fine in the flash preview (and in the HTML
preview) and the video controls works just fine, I even have all
the files saved into a single folder.
I then embed then embedded the .swf file into my page on DW
and still got the grey box which shows there is a flash file I then
previewed it in a browser and the controls do not show, I even
uploaded it to my server to try it live on the net and still the
same problem.
I'm much more of a designer than a coder and I looked over
the coding and it 'appeared' to be fine.
What simple idiotic thing am I not doing...?
I'm using Dreamweaver & Flash CS3
Many thanks, Jack :)

Actually, I got it working now...
It seems that I have to have all the files in the same folder
as the page it displays on!
Historically I would dump a standard flash clip (not a
converted movie with buttons) into the /images folder.
I tested this intitally in a /video folder (just to keep all
the files in one place) which would display the clip but not the
buttons but as soon as I moved the files in the same directory as
the page itself (which is the main index.html) it worked fine!
So if anyone does read this is there a reason for that as I
would like to keep everything in separate folders!
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Hi all,
I am having one html file that is showing flash movie on
brawser.
I want to load that flash movie into my flash application
movie clip. How can I do that. Please guide me...
here is html code... put it in ad.html file and open it.
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'
src='file:///D:/SportingBet-Widget/ExtraStuff/Documents/adx.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>

</script><noscript><a href='
http://ads.sportdog.gr/ads/adclick.php?n=a1ffd680'
target='_blank'><img src='
http://ads.sportdog.gr/ads/adview.php?what=zone:218&n=a1ffd680'
border='0' alt=''></a></noscript>

Did you upload the Flash movie (the SWF file)? Doesn't appear
to be on
your server.
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Blip in flash movie

Need help with flash movie that started to blip a white
screen between end of movie and start of movie while looping. This
started happening after I deleted a couple of frames from the very
beginning of the movie. I deleted more frames from the beginning
and now the blip is longer. It's like the screen goes blank. Cannot
figure this one out.. HELP!!!

is that text being loaded externally? If so and you are using
an absolute
reference to that text (with the www in the url) it will
require a
crossdomain.xml policy file to load correctly. That, or use a
relative path
to the text file
"Tezza" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:f227ef$5c3$[email protected]..
> This is causing me a problem with dynamic text, which
does not appear in
> the movie (Flash 8 Pro in Firefox/IE/Opera) when www is
not used in the
> address bar (simondavies.info - Projects page).
>
> Anybody?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tezza
>
> See also a post on 23/04/07 with Subject: What happens
differently when
> using and not using www in the address bar
>

I ordered an On Demand Movie ... But The WRONG MOVIE Appeared !

We had decided to watch "Shutter Island". Searched for it by title and found it on the On Demand list. Clicked on the "OK" button to rent the film. But the wrong movie appeared! Something named "The Call". Pessed the stop button. Next the screen returned to a menu display that read on the right side of the screen "Shutter Island" followed by desription... "Directed Martin Scorsese,""starring Leonardo Diapprio," etc. But a poster on the left side of the screen showed another movie completely, one named "The Call".
I searched again for the title "Shutter Island." This time I noticed that there were TWO movies listed as "Shutter Island." One displayed the wrong poster again, "The Call". The second on the list showed the correct poster for the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. So I rented it, knowing that I'll br double-billed, and will now have to remember to check my bill and then call and argue with Verizon billing people.
What a PITA.

OK. Now that makes sense and that's what I figured. I will stick with my DVDs. My DVD player still works very well and I have no intention of replacing it unless it goes.
I am really not a fan of *not* having a physical hard copy of music on a CD or a movie on DVD. OK, so a movie you buy "on demand" gets stored on Verizon's servers but then what happens if there is a problem with the server or if you have to stop doing business with Verizon Fios because you move to an area where only cable is available? Then what? At least with a hard copy, it's always mine, it's durable, it can last forever, I can watch it anytime, and I will always have it to view regardless of what kind of system I have. I think it's a lot nicer too to have a physical collection of music and movies. It's tangible and it makes a statement about ourselves.
I think the quality of CD music is far superior than music that gets downloaded from Pandora and even with physical DVDs, I find they're much easier to control (with the pause and fast forwarding) on a DVD player. With an on demand movie that I rent, the pause button will only stay on for so long or if I stop the movie and come back to watching it later, I still often have to fast foward and back track to where I left off.
I'm only mentioning this because there are pros and cons to any technological innovation and I don't believe that "newer" is necessarily better. And far as having a hard copy is concerned, think of the reasons why we back up the files on our hard drives and why even in college, I always saved my papers on the hard drive and on a floppy disk. OK, so now we have "flash drives" but in my honest opinion, the logic of keeping a hard copy for the long haul is really still the same in the end.
It's just food for thought.

Flash Movie appears blank on server

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