Inserting flv file in Dreamweaver CS4

When I insert a flv file using Dreamweavr CS4 using asp (Windows XP, SP3 and IE8), I only get two additional files generated (FLV-PlayerProgressive.swf and a skins file. I get no other files generated, either in my root folder of a Scripts folder. FLV file works fine in Live Mode, but all I get is a white box when I upload the files to my server. I've read numerous similar questions. Has anyone ever got a good answer? How can I resolve this issue? I appreciate any help from anyone.

I have checked numerous reference materials concerning this problem, and cannot really find any answer as to why DW CS4 is not inserting the files (for some users). I have even tried using different programs to encode an flv file, and creating an html page direct from within flash CS4, just to see if different files are created (definitely more options etc), but to no avail.
The files DW should create are -
FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf,
Halo_Skin_3.swf (this is a skins file and can be any one of 9 available)
2 files in a Scripts folder named –
swfobject_modified.js
expressInstall.swf
In the head content it should insert the following -
<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
The only option I can recommend, is to insert the flv into a new (otherwise blank) html file, and then copy the code from there (providing it works of course).
I know this is a problem for many people, and I have even considered asking the forum administrators if I could write an FAQ on how-to and possible solutions.
If DW is not inserting the files mentioned above it may be worth while trying an uninstall / reinstall, but my recommendation is to first create a fictitious site, and then insert an flv into a blank html file (as mentioned above), just to test if that works.
PZ

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Complete newbie needs help inserting flv file into DW

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From my little knwledge, it is not possible to insert FLV
file in the HTML page directly.For this you have to made a player
with flash which plays the FLV.And this swf can emdded in the HTML
page.
You can also download free flash videoplayers like JW Player.
Thanks

Problems with embedding .flv files in DW CS4....

I inserted an .flv file into my DW CS4 html page. I previewed it in my browser, and it worked for a little bit, but now it's not working in any browser, I'm not sure what happened. I included a screen shot in the attachments of what was happening in all the browsers.
Thanks for any help,
Thank you,
Aza

Not sure if that was meant for me
You can tell who was the intended recipient by looking at the header of the message -
6. Sep 10, 2010 6:50 AM in response to: FordGuy48 <<----
Re: Problems with embedding .flv files in DW CS4....
A link to the page would help us diagnose your problem.
Safari tells me that this file -
FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf
is not where you have told the page to expect it. Did you upload it?

Inserted FLV files not playing in a published project.

The issue: Inserted FLV files display (play) when previewing a project but not in a published project.
My setup: Windows XP and Captivate 5
Questions:
   1) When in Filmstrip view only the movie playback bars show, not an image of the actual movie, is this correct?
   2) When I preview a project for the first time, the FLV files display (play) in Preview mode, HOWEVER, any time I preview the project after that, the movies do not play.
   3) When I publish a project, the inserted FLV files do not display (play), they only show the movie playback bars.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Oh yeah, all the files are in the same directory.

When updating .lbi files in DreamWeaver CS4 I get an invalid path.

When I make changes to my .lbi files in DreamWeaver CS4 I and try to update them I am getting
   item Library\dreamweaver\themed_image.lbiE:\RCG\Web Sites\2011 RCG Working Web Site\Library\dreamweaver\themed_image.lbi contains an invalid path.
    item Library\dreamweaver\logo.lbiE:\RCG\Web Sites\2011 RCG Working Web Site\Library\dreamweaver\logo.lbi contains an invalid path.
    item Library\dreamweaver\icons.lbiE:\RCG\Web Sites\2011 RCG Working Web Site\Library\dreamweaver\icons.lbi contains an invalid path.
    item Library\dreamweaver\menu_top.lbiE:\RCG\Web Sites\2011 RCG Working Web Site\Library\dreamweaver\menu_top.lbi contains an invalid path.
    item Library\dreamweaver\menu_side.lbiE:\RCG\Web Sites\2011 RCG Working Web Site\Library\dreamweaver\menu_side.lbi contains an invalid path.
    item Library\dreamweaver\$_whats_new.lbiE:\RCG\Web Sites\2011 RCG Working Web Site\Library\dreamweaver\$_whats_new.lbi contains an invalid path.
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files updated: 0
files which could not be updated: 0
total time: (0:00:13)
Here is the code in one of the files for my side menu.. I do not see what is wrong and was wondering if anyone could help. Thank you.
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<h3>MainMenu</h3>
<div class="bg">

<div id="ddsidemenubar" class="sidemenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="../../index.htm"             title="Home">                        <span>Home</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="../../services.htm"         title="Services"    rel="sub2">        <span>Services</span></a></li>
<li><a href="../../photo_gallery.htm"     title="Photos">Gallery<span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="../../sitemap.htm"         title="Search">                        <span>Search</span></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
ddlevelsmenu.setup("ddsidemenubar", "sidebar") //ddlevelsmenu.setup("mainmenuid", "topbar|sidebar")
</script>

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Are all of your pages that are linked to this on the same directory level?
The ../../ in front of every link means "go up two directory levels". If there are no pages, or if some of the pages are not at that directory level, the links would be going to nothing.
I don't use library items myself, so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it, but the "bad path" in your error report leads me to think some of those paths (since they're the only ones in the code) could be pointing to the wrong locations.
My response will also bump your question back to the top of the pile. Maybe someone else will have a good idea of what's actually happening.

Cannot play MP3 files in Dreamweaver CS4

Hi
Apogogies if this has been asked before.
I have an embedded MP3 file on one of my DWCS4 pages but when I try to play it from the Properties Inspector I get the message "Unable to find the plugin that handles this media type".
The sound file plays OK in Firefox and IE but I would like to be able to test it in DW. I have the currrent version of Apple QuickTime Pro installed.
I am using both Windows XP and Vista with the same problem.
Is there a plug I can download for DW only in order to play these files without resorting to converting the MP3 to another format.
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George

Yes but I did exactly what I accused you of doing so it was really bad!
Software troubles can drive you a bit crazy. Sorry again.
From: pziecina <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:16:11 -0600
To: d maass <[email protected]>
Subject: Cannot play MP3 files in Dreamweaver CS4
Hi
Thank you for the apology, but as we have all (probably), misread and
therefore wrongly replied to posts, it is not really necessary.
PZ

How do I go about transferring files from Dreamweaver CS4 to Dreamweaver CC?

How do I go about transferring
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If both versions are on the same hard drive, simply tell DW CC where your site files are located on your hard drive. Go to Site > New Site and define your site.
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Adding a .flv file into dreamweaver

I'm wondering how I can put a .flv file into a web page. It
is not a .swf. I'm working with Dreamweaver MX 2004.
When I put my .flv video into the page, it refuses to accept
it when I want to preview. Any suggestions? Source plugins required
or something? Also, I'm working on a Mac.
The .flv file is mine, not created in flash, but pulled back
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Edmond4 wrote:
> Actually, I've been looking, and I don't have the option
of "insert Flash
> video" in my version of Dreamweaver. Initially, there
was some mention of a
> plugin. I try and get that warning popup again to see
what it says but I don't
> get it now.
>
> If I do insert "Flash" then I put the .flv file in. It
gives me the option to
> "play" in the property inspector, but the file doesn't
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> in the browser. So I don't have the "Insert < flash
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Dynamic swf file into dreamweaver cs4

Good evening to all,
Can a basic slide show created in Flash cs4 using as2 to load the images dynamically be inserted into a Dreamweaver cs4 page ?
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When you load the swf file into the html page, that becomes the swf's reference for loading files. So if your structure has a folder containing the html file and another folder for the flash file and another folder for the images, as in...
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then you need to change where the swf file is looking for the images because when it is in the html page, that is essentially the folder it is trying to get the images to load thru.
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"images/imagefile.jpg"
Just think of the swf file as living in the html file's folder as far as targeting any files it needs to load, because once it is loaded into that page, it has basically moved to that new location.

How can I mask on flv file in flash cs4?

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I am new to Flash CS4. I saw one video on how to use flv file in flash and mask it. It is working fine when I am using the following option while importing a video file to flash:
Load external video with playback component
But when I tried with the following option it doesn't show the background, it shows only movie which is playing nicely. But not the background which has a bill board.
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It seems the mask is not working with this option.
How to solve this problem? Please help.
Actually it should be like the above.
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I Tried with CS4 by creating mask layer and importing video , layers created were same as you have created and it is working for me .
Here is the screen shot of the .fla file.
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When you use "Save" with Related Files, whichever document (either the main document in the Design View, or the Related File in Code VIew) that has focus is saved.
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I have spent two weeks trying to sort this out after failing to add a clickable thumbnail to play the video as the video image on the site is black which doesnt look very good. Is there any way that i can choose the thumbnail that flash player decides to feature for the video? I know you can do this with youtube videos.
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I just don't see any white border on the right hand videos... if the problem continues, post a screen shot of what you are seeing. Also, 250 x 199 is not a 4:3 aspect ratio... 250/4 = 62.5, 62.5x3= 187.5.... so you are off by 11 pixels or so. Correct height for a 250 wide video shot at 4:3 aspect ratio, is 188px.
Now on the left hand YouTube videos, the controls are under the video, not over the top of the video as the right hand videos are... so the height of the <object>.... not the video itself... the <object> needs to be tall enough to hold the video and the controls (video height + controls height).
And since you are working in standard 4:3 aspect ratio video, you need to be careful to select the correct pixel shape, square or rectangle when starting any video project. Your video editing program, Premiere Elements should allow you to select between square pixels (used in computer monitors) or rectangle pixels (used in TVs). Selecting the wrong shaped pixel at the very start of the video capture process can mean distorted video once you render the project.
Because TV pixels are rectangle, slightly taller than they are wide... it doesn't take as many rectangle TV pixels to equal the same height as square computor monitor pixels. For example, when you start a video project to output to DVD (TV viewing) you would choose rectangle pixels, so a 720 x 480 video dimensions would give you the correct 4:3 aspect ratio.... for TV.... but 720 x 480 is NOT a 4:3 aspect ratio mathmatically ... 720/4=180, 180x3=540 !! So for computer monitor viewing you would select square pixels at the very start of your video capture process and capture the video at 720x540, giving you the correct video aspect ratio for viewing on monitors.
So besides setting the correct aspect ratio for the video in the <object> be sure that you started with the correct pixel shape.
This might also give you some help... or just Google "square vs rectangle pixels" for more info:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/velte_mike/p6/video-tutorial
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Resizing FLV files in Dreamweaver CS3

Hello,
I am adding videos to my websites' "videos main page", and these extra videos are going to be added to the videos currently in the flash player. I have already copied the jpg preview picture files and the flv video files into my website directory. To contain the extra data, I have already added the appropriate number of <li>'s to the index.html file of the videos folder. For each new video I have also added an <img src="...."> line to the images.xml file. The images.xml file has information regarding the id, location etc..of every video in general. It is shown below.
images.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gallery>
     <album id="videos" title="CBET Videos" description="CBET Video Gallery"
     lgPath="video_gallery/album1/videos/">
          <img src="2g_robotics.flv" id="2g_robotics" vidpreview="video_gallery/album1/videos/2g_robotics_preview.jpg" caption="2G Robotics"/>
          <img src="clearpath.flv" id="clearpath" vidpreview="video_gallery/album1/videos/clearpath_preview.jpg" caption="Clearpath"/>
          <img src="medshare.flv" id="medshare" vidpreview="video_gallery/album1/videos/medshare_preview.jpg" caption="Medshare"/>
          <img src="nalion.flv" id="nalion" vidpreview="video_gallery/album1/videos/nalion_preview.jpg" caption="Nalion"/>
          <img src="mbetcommercial.flv" id="mbetcommercial" vidpreview="video_gallery/album1/videos/mbet_commercial.jpg" caption="MBET Commercial"/>
          <img src="ocecbetcommercial.flv" id="ocecbetcommercial" vidpreview="video_gallery/album1/videos/oce_cbet_commercial.jpg" caption="OCE CBET Commercial"/>
          <img src="bostontrip08.flv" id="bostontrip08" vidpreview="video_gallery/album1/videos/boston_trip_08.jpg" caption="Boston Trip 2008"/>
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The only issue that I have, is that the videos themselves display in the player at a much smaller size, than the container size. I bet you could fit a three by three array of videos in my flash player. The first four img src lines are the videos that play at the correct size, and fill the flash player container, whereas the last three img src lines (the ones I added) are the videos that do not display at a correct size.
Is there any way that I can resize the flv files so that they fill the container within the flash player in Dreamweaver CS3? I primarily assumed that one can simply change the pixel dimensions (width and height) properties of the flv file itself, but apparently this is an issue regarding formatting in Dreamweaver. Online I found that one can specify pixel dimensions in the images.xml file. Does anybody have any ideas? Its probably an easy thing.
Thanks to everyone for coping with these details, and any help would be appreciated greatly.
kind regards,
Mr.V

Hi
There are a number of ways you may do this, the first would be to use the scale parameter for the flash player content, but the problem you will find is maintaining the aspect ratio and if your flv's are smaller the degradation in the quality when 'enlarging', see - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14149.html.
The second way would be to use a combination of actionscript and javascript to proportionally 'enlarge' the flv, again the above problems apply.
Finally you could change the size of the flash player to fit your 'new' flv using javascript, but this method would in all probability present layout problems for your user, a small change would be o/k, but the size of change you are talking about would not. The design would have to incorporate a fixed size div for the flash player, and resizing the player would leave a large amount of white space.
It is possible to do this using a liquid layout, but again this would cause problems with page rendering.
PZ

FLV files in dreamweaver....??

Hello,
I have just started creating websites and thus this is all still new to me so let me try to explain. A client has asked for a website and got a Graphic designer to create a moving animation for me to put on the site. He supplied the file as an FLV file. When I put it into Dreamweaver, it thinks it is a video and puts the skin on. I dont want the skin! How can I convert the file to something else? and what should i convert to?!!
can anyone help?!
Thank you in advance
mich

Obviously the designer does not know the difference between flv and swf. My advice would be to contact the designer and ask them to supply the animation as an swf file.
Alternatively, if you have flash proffessional you could create your own custom skin and use this instead of the normal one.
(see - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_tutorial_pt2.html )
PZ

Error message when inserting .FLV file

I have Captivate 6 and have downloaded all updates that appeared when I went to the Help menu > Updates.
I am going to Video > Insert Video and browse for my .FLV file (this is a Multi-Slide Synchronized Video). I then select "Modify slide duration to accomodate video" and click OK. I am prompted with the following error: "Video encountered an internal error"
The .FLV file was downloaded from a Virtual Classroom recording in Adobe Connect and is 49,329 KB.
Can anyone help me with this?

Hi Vikram -
Thank you for your reply.
I have version 6.0.1.240
I receive the same error when I try to insert the video as an Event Video
The error happens in all projects. I have tried several blank projects, and a few existing to test it out.
Below is a screenshot of the options I select when inserting a video, along with a screenshot of the error message I receive after clicking OK.

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