Some SWFs Play, Some Don't

I have three swf's out of about a dozen in my piece that
won't play. I've checked the settings on those that do and they
appear to match those that don't.
For example, in one section I start with an audio icon that
has a swf and several text supers off to the side that are timed to
the audio. When the audio ends, an erase icon clears the screen and
another sound bite starts, again with a swf and a couple of text
supers timed to the audio. The first swf plays fine, but on the
second one there's nothing except the supers.
In the other section with problems, there's an mpg, erase,
swf, mpg, erase, swf sequences. The mpg's play fine, along with the
audio, but the swfs do not. BTW, it plays fine on my development
machine.
I checked the forum for similar problems and the answers
given, especially by Steve Howard, but none of them seemed to fit.
What else can I look for?

If it plays fine on your development machine, then likelihood
is the
file can't be found. Does it play on your dev machine in
development and
when packaged? Just doesn't play packaged on other machines?
Web
packaged or local?
If the files are linked to externally, are you sure they can
be found by
the related sprites?
A test could be to import those that aren't playing into
their sprites
(assuming you have a unique instance of each per Flash file),
so they
are internal to the project. If they still don't play, there
could be
something wrong with those files. If they play, it would seem
to be a
path/location problem.
Erik
ArtCabot wrote:
> I have three swf's out of about a dozen in my piece that
won't play. I've
> checked the settings on those that do and they appear to
match those that
> don't.
>
> For example, in one section I start with an audio icon
that has a swf and
> several text supers off to the side that are timed to
the audio. When the audio
> ends, an erase icon clears the screen and another sound
bite starts, again with
> a swf and a couple of text supers timed to the audio.
The first swf plays fine,
> but on the second one there's nothing except the supers.
>
> In the other section with problems, there's an mpg,
erase, swf, mpg, erase,
> swf sequences. The mpg's play fine, along with the
audio, but the swfs do not.
> BTW, it plays fine on my development machine.
>
> I checked the forum for similar problems and the answers
given, especially by
> Steve Howard, but none of them seemed to fit. What else
can I look for?
>
>

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