Trouble inserting Flash video

I previously installed flash on my website using dreamweaver and insert media, FLV. Now when I try to do it again, I keep getting this weird player graphic come up and no video playing. I've included a picture of what it is showing. Has anyone had this problem or know how to fix it?
Thanks,
J. Shipler

Hi
I have seen this type of file before and it is used for creating the control in flash skins etc.
Have you installed any extensions for creating flash buttons or similar?
PZ

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Update for Insert Flash Video command

I looked at DW for the very first time, having recently
upgraded all my hardware and software. I now have the full Master
Collection - very exciting. Opened DW with great trepidation after
a lifetime with my beloved GoLive and was confronted with the
strong recommendation to do an update to protect against
insecurities arising with the Insert Flash Video Command.
Eventually I printed out the instructions provided in the technote
and followed them to the letter. All went well until the
verification stage. The technote tells me that the updated files
should have a creation date of 15th January 2008. Mine was 9th
January. I just want to know if this matters? Do I need to repeat
the whole procedure as the instructions tell me I should if the
files are not updated. In fact they have updated but just not to
the correct date. And why should it turn out any differently if I
do it again? I am puzzled.
I have obviously never used the Insert Flash video command
since I've never even used DW itself so maybe I didn't even need to
do the update at all in the first place anyway. But I thought I'd
better, in case I used the command at some time in the future,
although the possibility of me using something so technical seems
remote at this stage. (I am yet to learn Flash.)
I updated both DW and Contribute as suggested in spite of not
even knowing what Contribute is for yet.

The "Security Update Available" still shows on my welcome
screen, even after updating it.

Insert flash video? Won't play

Any tips on inserting Flash video into a project in Captivate 4?
I can get video to appear an play in Preview, but after publishing, the video doesn't appear and the slide forwards.
(Also, there seems to be a conssitent problme where preview is inaccurate.)

The videos are in the same folder as the project, and they appear in the published folder.
Tried path 2 ways:
myvideo.flv
/myvideo.flv
Neither made a difference.
There are 3 videos on this slide --- could that be a problem?

Problem Inserting Flash Video (.flv) File in Page Using Dreamweaver CS4's Insert Media Command

I am using Dreamweaver CS4.
I am attempting to put a Flash Video (.flv) file on a standard HTML page in Dreamweaver.
When I either click the Insert Flash Video in the Common tab on the Dreamweaver toolbar, or if I choose Insert > Media > FLV to inert the video, I get the standard Dreamweaver FLV interface. I make my choices, click OK, and when the video is place on the page, I get the following dialog box:
"While executing inspectSelection in flvProgressive.htm, a JavaScript error occurred."
with an OK button.
If I preview the page, all that loads are the various buttons of the skin that I have chosen and no video.
Anyone have an idea what is going on?
maylandmac

Are you sure you aren't working with a template driven page?
When you insert media files into DW, it must write code in the <head> tags to reference Scripts necessary for Flash media to work on the web.
If you're working with a page that was created from a Template, the DWT page must have editable regions in the <head> tags, or you won't be able to add media to your web pages.
Nancy O.
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Insert flash video problem

Hi all,
I know this question has been asked before, but I've tried
all the solutions offered and none worked.
I am using the command "Insert -->Flash Video" to insert a
video on a web page (using DW8). Plays locally, but not after
upload. Scripts folder and both the skin and
FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf file are uploaded to the appropriate
places. I've tried on multiple computers and in multiple browsers
and can't figure why it won't work.
Here it is on a
test page. Should play in box and flv file is only a little
over 1MB.
Any suggestions would be very appreciated. I'm ready to pull
my hair out.
Thanks in advance.

Guessing here but, is there supposed to be a blabla .flv file
on the server
or in your code?
"ptvsavant" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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> Hi all,
> I know this question has been asked before, but I've
tried all the
> solutions
> offered and none worked.
>
> I am using the command "Insert -->Flash Video" to
insert a video on a web
> page
> (using DW8). Plays locally, but not after upload.
Scripts folder and both
> the
> skin and FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf file are uploaded to
the appropriate
> places.
> I've tried on multiple computers and in multiple
browsers and can't figure
> why
> it won't work.
>
>
http://channel2.org/test/new07/vidtest.html
Should play in box and flv
> file is
> only a little over 1MB.
>
> Any suggestions would be very appreciated. I'm ready to
pull my hair out.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Trouble inserting Flash in CS5.5

I just upgraded to CS5.5 and am having trouble inserting a Flash file into Dreamweaver. When I used CS4, I would open the html file that Flash created in the Publish process. I would copy and paste the top part of that file -- the <script> info into the header of my dreamweaver code. Then in the location where I wanted the Flash file to be I would paste the code from the Flash html that started with  and ended with </noscript>.
However, the files I just created in Flash using all the same Publish settings as I used previously (I think!) look completely different. There is nothing like either of these sections that I previously used to insert the Flash code into Dreamweaver. Here is a comparison of the 2 Flash html files so you can see what I'm talking about.
Flash html in CS4:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Firestone</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#c9aad0">



<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
    AC_FL_RunContent(
        'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0',
        'width', '175',
        'height', '66',
        'src', 'Firestone',
        'quality', 'high',
        'pluginspage', 'http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer',
        'align', 'middle',
        'play', 'true',
        'loop', 'true',
        'scale', 'showall',
        'wmode', 'transparent',
        'devicefont', 'false',
        'id', 'Firestone',
        'bgcolor', '#c9aad0',
        'name', 'Firestone',
        'menu', 'true',
        'allowFullScreen', 'false',
        'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain',
        'movie', 'Firestone',
        'salign', ''
        ); //end AC code
</script>
<noscript>
    <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="175" height="66" id="Firestone" align="middle">
    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
    <param name="movie" value="Firestone.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#c9aad0" />    <embed src="Firestone.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#c9aad0" width="175" height="66" name="Firestone" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" />
    </object>
</noscript>
</body>
</html>
FLASH html (different video) in CS5.5:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>AfrWomen</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <style type="text/css" media="screen">
        html, body { height:100%; background-color: #000000;}
        body { margin:0; padding:0; overflow:hidden; }
        #flashContent { width:100%; height:100%; }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="flashContent">
            <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="200" height="54" id="AfrWomen" align="middle">
                <param name="movie" value="AfrWomen.swf" />
                <param name="quality" value="high" />
                <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
                <param name="play" value="true" />
                <param name="loop" value="true" />
                <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
                <param name="scale" value="showall" />
                <param name="menu" value="true" />
                <param name="devicefont" value="false" />
                <param name="salign" value="" />
                <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                
                <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="AfrWomen.swf" width="200" height="54">
                    <param name="movie" value="AfrWomen.swf" />
                    <param name="quality" value="high" />
                    <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
                    <param name="play" value="true" />
                    <param name="loop" value="true" />
                    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
                    <param name="scale" value="showall" />
                    <param name="menu" value="true" />
                    <param name="devicefont" value="false" />
                    <param name="salign" value="" />
                    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                
                    <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash">
                        <img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" />
                    </a>
                
                </object>
                
            </object>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>
HELP!!!!!

OK, firstly, you can open the site an Dreamweeaver CS 4 and insert your flash video, but with CS 5.5 Adobe decided that Flash support should be something they should deprecate. And there is good reason.
Mobile devices don't handle Flash very well. iPhones and iPads simply won't play it and many of the Android devices make a video into a slide show with sound.
With CS 5.5 though, you can make an HTML5 document that understands the <video> tag. This will allow you to directly embed a video into a website without needing any plugin. There is a complete explanation and tutorial here:
Webmonkey: Embed Video in your web page using HTML5
From the article, here's the source:
<video width="560" height="340" controls>
<source src="path/to/myvideo.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"'>
<source src="path/to/myvideo.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
</video>
That's it! You can add additional stuff, like an image placeholder and so on, but really, you're looking at four lines of code here. Now, with the Flash stuff, Adobe, which supported Flash, wrote all of the code for you. While that was easy, it was a lot more complicated and, of course, clients on your site had to have the Flash plugin to see the video.
Your doctype declatation is XHTML 1.0 strict. You will need to change your doctype to HTML5 thusly:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
Then after your head tag, declare your character set:
<meta charset="UTF-8">
Lastly, you will need to make sure that your server understands the ogg Theora MIME type. Download your .,htaccess file from your remote server and add the following lines to the end of that file:
AddType audio/ogg .oga
AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType application/ogg .ogg
AddHandler application-ogg .ogg .ogv .oga
You may also be able to add these MIME types from your server's control panel.
Then, you're finished with Flash—forever.

Problem inserting Flash video into DW CS3 template

I would like to insert some flash video into an editable
region inside a DW CS3 template. The template I am using seems to
work for literally hundreds of other pages I have made (none of
which, incidentally, have any media of any kind in them).
I have created the template and then an editable region and
now want to insert the flash video in that editable region. All
goes well until I hit the OK button. then I get this error--Making
this change would require changing code that is locked by a
template or translator The change will be discarded.
Can anyone suggest how I might over come this error??
Thx.
Jane

The problem is the detection option in the video insertion
dialog. If you
disable that option, you will not get the error.
This is a problem because the detection routine requires a
modification to
the <body> tag (insertion of an onload event) which you
cannot easily do in
a template child page.
If you really must have the detection, then you can copy and
past the load
call from a dummy (non-templated) page on which you have also
done the same
insertion. Post back with that page's body tag code, and I'll
show you
how....
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"Jane Smith 2300" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Further to my post before--The .htm that I am trying to
insert the Flash
> video
> (converted an AVI file using Flash video encoder) was
built from a .dwt.
>
> The template page has several editable regions in it.
There is also CSS.
> formatting the document. I am trying to insert the Flash
video into one
> of the
> editable regions.
>
> I have no problem installing the video in a page not
built with a template
> or
> without css..
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> jane
>

Insert Flash Video

Using Dreamweaver 8 I have created a site with PHP/MySQL that
is similar to YouTube. I am using the database to store the
filename for each uploaded FLV. I have a search page which will
return results listing page, and then go to a details page when one
of the results is clicked. So, on my details page, I want to insert
an FLV player using the Insert>Media>Flash Video function in
Dreamweaver. This brings up the window where you browse for your
FLV file and select a skin, etc. When I click on Browse, another
window pops up which allows you to navigate to the file, but also
gives you the option to Select file name from Data Sources. When I
choose data sources and select the appropriate field in my
recordset which contains the file to be played and click Choose,
and then then OK on the previous window, I get an error that my URL
cannot contain any special characters.
I thought this could work the same way as an image place
holder.
What am I doing wrong? Can I have an empty FLV player on a
page which gets the correct file to play from a MySQL databse with
PHP?

> (Insert>Media>Flash Video)
this requires a .flv file, not .swf
> "The URL cannot contain spaces or special characters.
Change the path or
> file
> name and try again"
This is a very unhelpful message unfortunately (o:
Hope this helps
Jo
"Fred1000" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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> Attempting to insert a flash video onto a page with the
controls.
> (Insert>Media>Flash Video) After choosing the .swf
file and setting other
> parameters on the dialogue box, click ok and get message
>
> "The URL cannot contain spaces or special characters.
Change the path or
> file
> name and try again"
>
> I dhose the file through the browse button and is doc
relative. Name is
> cooktest.swf. Site name is Maria_Site.
>
> Was just experimenting to see how this feature worked.
Rest of site is
> working
> fine, in fact have two .swf files on the site where I
just inserted them
> with
> out controls.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Fred
>

Inserting Flash video in Dreamweaver

This is my first time using Dreamweaver and it's been a blast but I get to the point of needing to insert a Flash video and it gives me a message: "Making this change would require changing a code that is locked by a template or a translator. The change will be discarded."
Is the template the index page I use as my template for other pages?
What code is it that I need to change to insert the video?

Are you sure you aren't working with a template driven page?
When you insert media files into DW, it must write code in the <head> tags to reference Scripts necessary for Flash media to work on the web.
If you're working with a page that was created from a Template, the DWT page must have editable regions in the <head> tags, or you won't be able to add media to your web pages.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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Inserting Flash Video

Hi
When I try to insert a video into a web page, I keep getting
the message 'The URL cannot contain spaces or special characters.
Change the path or file name and try again.' BUT there are no
spaces or special characters, and the same message appears with any
video I try to insert. Is this a problem because I am using the
trial version of Dreamweaver, or is it another issue???

Post a link to the page that is not working, please.
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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
.swf file. When I
> switched to the.flv file, it worked fine. I can view it
in preview. My
> problem
> is when I upload all the files to my website, none of
the flash works. My
> flash
> files that I create in Photoshop work just fine.
>

Trying to insert flash video onto website

I'm using Dreamweaver and have been trying to embed a flash
video onto my web page. I have inserted the proper file, but I
think I need to reference the start.exe file to get the movie to
play. Any help? This is the code so far:
<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0"
name="biz" width="600" height="400" id="biz">
<param name="movie" value="
http://www.twosapair.com/SteelExternalAll.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high"><param
name="BGCOLOR" value="#0000FF"><param name="LOOP"
value="false">
<embed src="
http://www.twosapair.com/SteelExternalAll.swf"
width="600" height="400" loop="false" quality="high" pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="biz"
bgcolor="#0000FF"></embed>
</object>

It's not a mime problem. It's a file not there problem.
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"G" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have in the past had to change MIME types - but thats
on a MS server,
>yours is apache... Does the same thing apply ?
>
> Checkout -
>
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context= LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001577.html
>
> Gerry
>
>
>
>
http://www.UsableHost.co.uk
>
>
> "Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
> news:epvi8g$f8j$[email protected]..
>>I see the Scripts folder, but this file is still not
there -
>>
>> <embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf"
>>
>> --
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so!)
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>> ==================
>>
>>
>> "LexFaure" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>> news:epvi04$f0u$[email protected]..
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Insert Flash Video MUTED

Hi,
I have an embedded FLV in a Dreamweaver page, inserted using
the
Insert > Media > Flash Video menu item and using the
Clear Skin 1 skin. Everything's been working well, but now
the client would like the movie to start MUTED with the option for
the user to turn the mute button off (or turn volume on).
I've tried using FlashVars (value="volume=0") and that
doesn't seem to work.
Is there some easy way of doing this or do I have to go back
to Flash and do it there?

> (Insert>Media>Flash Video)
this requires a .flv file, not .swf
> "The URL cannot contain spaces or special characters.
Change the path or
> file
> name and try again"
This is a very unhelpful message unfortunately (o:
Hope this helps
Jo
"Fred1000" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:evtgqe$s3p$[email protected]..
> Attempting to insert a flash video onto a page with the
controls.
> (Insert>Media>Flash Video) After choosing the .swf
file and setting other
> parameters on the dialogue box, click ok and get message
>
> "The URL cannot contain spaces or special characters.
Change the path or
> file
> name and try again"
>
> I dhose the file through the browse button and is doc
relative. Name is
> cooktest.swf. Site name is Maria_Site.
>
> Was just experimenting to see how this feature worked.
Rest of site is
> working
> fine, in fact have two .swf files on the site where I
just inserted them
> with
> out controls.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Fred
>

Insert Flash Video Skin Issue

When I Insert a Flash Video the second drop down box is
titled Skin. I have 9 options, 3 Clear, 3 Corona, 3 Halo. The first
two types add the Play Bar on to the video which shows when
scrolled over. The third adds it to the bottom.
The Halo option is what I want, a play bar at the bottom,
however this option seems to also a black line sized border just
outside the whole of the video. I can not seem to find a way to
stop this. What folder are these play bars located in? Could I add
more to it, or use flash to modify the existing skin to change
colour or remove that border or just plain make my own?
Thanks

Yes. All in my flash folder. Skin is call SkinUnderAll.swf. I did notice in Dremweaver that this file does not show up in the code with the rest of the video code. When I add the video swf do I still need to add the skin file also. I was thinking that I wouldn't have to.

Problem Inserting Flash Video (flv) File into Site

Hi -
I'm having problems inserting a Flash Video (.flv) into my webpage. I'm using Dreamweaver 8.
I'm going to: Insert - Media - Flash Video, browsing to the .flv file that's in my local site folder, entering the settings.
In Dreamweaver, there's a big gray box w/ flv icon in the middle. But when I go to preview, the screen is empty, no video.
I'm creating the .flv file w/ Screen Mimic (a screen capture recording software). This could be a problem w/ the Screen Mimic file because I have no problem inserting other flv files supplied to me by others. This is the first video that I've made that I'm trying to insert.
If anyone has any suggestions, I would be most appreciative.
thanks!
Stacey Stanley

This could be a problem w/ the Screen Mimic file because I have no problem inserting other flv files supplied to me by others.
That would my guess too. Here are few other things to consider:
1) Does your FLV filename contain any spaces or special characters? If so, rename it without spaces as these can cause problems.
2) Output Screen Mimic project to a QuickTime MOV file. Then use Adobe Flash Encoder to convert the MOV to FLV.
3) When you tested your page, was it a live page on remote server? Did you upload the page and all supporting files to server (Scripts folder, SWF, FLV...)?
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Insert Flash Video using Dreamweaver CS3

Hello,
If I were to import an FLV into Flash CS3, I would have the
ability to add text or images to the movie as needed. However, I am
testing Dreamweaver's ability to insert a Flash video directly onto
a web page, without the use of Flash CS3. I'm using Progressive
Download with the "Halo Skin 3" component. My question is: can the
Flash Video component inserted by Dreamweaver CS3 be edited somehow
using Flash CS3? I would be attempting to add text to the first
frame of the movie.
Thanks.

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