Problems inserting Flash video

I'm updating a colleague's site. In one of his pages he has a
Flash video embedded. The code he uses is
<embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" width="342"
height="291" align="left"
flashvars="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Halo_Skin_3&streamName=swf/AirMilesTVad_NEW&au toPlay=false&autoRewind=true"
quality="high" scale="noscale" name="FLVPlayer" salign="LT"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
This works on his page in IE but not in Firefox.
I tried putting the code into my page, with the relevant
Flash file in a subfolder and it didn't work in any browser. It
just put up a blank space the size of the video. I abandoned that
and tried using the DW menu Insert > Media > Flash video. The
dialog box asked me to browse for the URL of the swf file. But
whenever I OK that, it comes up with 'the URL cannot contain spaces
or special characters. Please enter it again.' I've tried putting
it in the same folder as the page, and renaming it so there are no
underscores or uppercase letters, but it still comes up with the
same message.
Both pages, the new and the old, link to
AC_runActiveContent.js; both pages are ASP files. I'm using DW
8.0.2.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Give us a link to the page, please.
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"no time for nickname" <[email protected]>
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> I'm updating a colleague's site. In one of his pages he
has a Flash video
> embedded. The code he uses is
>
<embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" width="342"
> height="291"
> align="left"
>
flashvars="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Halo_Skin_3&streamName=swf/AirMilesTV
> ad_NEW&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=true"
quality="high" scale="noscale"
> name="FLVPlayer" salign="LT"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
> This works on his page in IE but not in Firefox.
> I tried putting the code into my page, with the relevant
Flash file in a
> subfolder and it didn't work in any browser. It just put
up a blank space
> the
> size of the video. I abandoned that and tried using the
DW menu Insert >
> Media
>> Flash video. The dialog box asked me to browse for
the URL of the swf
>> file.
> But whenever I OK that, it comes up with 'the URL cannot
contain spaces or
> special characters. Please enter it again.' I've tried
putting it in the
> same
> folder as the page, and renaming it so there are no
underscores or
> uppercase
> letters, but it still comes up with the same message.
> Both pages, the new and the old, link to
AC_runActiveContent.js; both
> pages
> are ASP files. I'm using DW 8.0.2.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
>

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> I've encoded a number of videos in the FLV format(using
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"glenski" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I had the same problem and it was because I was using the
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>>
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>> "LexFaure" <[email protected]>
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>>> Thanks guys - this was a great help - ofcourse I
did not post the folder
>>> or the
>>> swf files. Sorry for such basic errors.
>>> But the pages still do not work. Now I get a
square for the movie - but
>>> nothing happens?
>>>
>>
>>
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