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First, I admit I am a Flash noob. That said, I have an ASP.NET web page (ASPX) hosting a flash movie, and the page works perfectly on my development box but does NOT work when hosted on a Windows Azure web role. The initial image (PNG) displays, and the triangular "play" button is there, but when you click it the player rectangle goes all black.
I have verified that the files are in place. All the naming is correct. As mentioned, it DOES work locally.
This is an SWF file that loads an MP4 file and there's some xxx_config.xml file that provides subtitles to the narration in the video. I did not make the movie, but it was made in Camtasia Studio 7. It generated the core html object tags that I copied, and all the supporting files. As far as I can determine, the SWF file is failing to load the MP4 file.
In theory, this should NOT be a cross-domain issue as all the files are in the same folder of the same web site. I have tried adding a crossdomain.xml for good measure, but that had no effect. I also made sure to try using one single web server instance in Azure in case the load balancing between instances was causing the problem, but that had no effect.
I have a support call in to Microsoft, but of course they say they do not support Flash and I imagine Adobe will say they don't support Azure.
Anyone aware of any Azure-specific gotchas?
PS I am testing in the same IE9 browser from my local machine so browser settings are identical from the case that works.

I fixed it myself. It turned out to be an Azure issue, not a Flash issue. By default when an Azure web role instance is created (think VM), the IIS server is not configured with a MIME type for MP4 files. You have to add it to your project's web.config file if you're going to use that type of file.
IIS doesn't like to serve up file types that it doesn't know about.

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