Getting .flv files to play in browsers
I have a website I just put up which is designed to show videos that I've produced. I want the videos to play in a new window in the local browser (using Target=_blank in HTML), and I thought the Flash plugin would recognize the files and play them. The files have all been converted into .flv, and the thumbnails each link to a video file, but the browsers won't play them. How do I get this to work?
The site is at: evanpetty.com.
Video is a weak spot for me, so I have to be careful about not leading you astray. You should be able to set up controls somehow for a player, but I don't know what that would consist of. Chances are you could use Google to find a tutorial... search terms that might yield good results would be "Flash FLVPlayback tutorial".
I know it is possible to build a player that has selections of different videos to play, and I made an AS2-based one without making use of the FLVPLayback component, but I could only have done it thru the help of a tutorial. Instead of choosing the component, in that version I end up going to the little list icon that's in the top right of the library and choosing New Video... that adds some kind of Video device to the library that I can place on stage and size. The rest of the dealings with it involve code. For that one, maybe you could find something using ""Flash New Video tutorial"
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MulvaMulva wrote:
> On our website, championbaptist.com, we want to use FLV
files. They work great
> locally, but do not play when uploaded to our web host.
The actual page that
> has the video inserted is
www.championbaptist.com/multimedia_Dec06.htm. I have
> been told by our web host that they support flv files (I
created an .htaccess
> file as well). Here is the code that is generated by
Dreamweaver when I insert
> the flash video:
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