FLV file doesn't start or play

Hi,
Brand new to Strobe, watched a couple vids you all put out and downloaded the StrobeMediaPlayback_1.5.1-full.zip. Used setup.htm to create code...my flv was encoded with Sorenson Squeeze 4.1 using Spark Pro codec...I copied the file StrobeMediaPlayback.swf to my source folder on my computer (testing local) put the flv in there too...made sure paths were set correctly...when I launch the web page (locally) for testing I see the player load but when I hit play I get error "We are having problems with playback. We appologize..."
So I built my own component player using Flash MX 2004 (I know it's an old version) and put this player in the same location and my flv file will play with this player but not the Strobe...am I missing something? Is there supposed to be more files copied into the source folder than just StrobeMediaPlayback.swf? Does strobe not play flv files encoded with the Spark Pro codec...I think these are h.263? Any help would be great...thanks.

Hi,
SMP was designed to play files from an URL. If you tested it on your file system, providing the source would not work as expected.
setting in the flashvars verbose=true will give you a more detailed error message.
My recommendation is to host both the played video file and the player on a local web server and to play or debug from there.
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