Getting .flv video to play on server

I'm helping my customer setup a Captivate 2 training module
on her company's server. She has the training program up and
running on her laptop computer with slides, recorded voice for
audio, and one video file with audio in .flv form. She is able to
run the program flawlessly from the C drive on her laptop. Her
server does not allow her to publish the program directly to the
server. She publishes the program to a directory on her C drive and
then copies the directory with all files to the server. She starts
the progrom on the server using a HTML link and the only thing that
does not play is the .flv file. The slides advance, the voice-over
audio is there. When she gets to the slide where the video is
sopposed to run there is only the slide background - no video. Any
ideas of what to check or what we are overlooking?
Thanks,
Dan L

Also, Windows servers tend to require the MIME Types for
various files
before it'll deliver them to the client:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_19439
Erik
GafferTape1 wrote:
> When she gets to the slide where
> the video is sopposed to run there is only the slide
background - no video. Any
> ideas of what to check or what we are overlooking?

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