Video plays on Root folder but not in Cgi-bin folder...Help!

Question

Hello-
I just transfered my entire website content form one domain to another and for some reson my videos will not play on the new domain whereas they played correctly in the cg-bin folder of the old domain.  I do not understand why and need your help to figure it out since I am not a flash guy.
Here is the link to the videos that are not working correctly.  http://www.healthywaterlife.com/cgi-bin/d.cgi/phil/videos.html
My cgi guy says that all of the cgi is working correctly and he has stated that the problem lies within the code of the html.  So here is the html code for one of the videos...
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="605" height="350" id="FLVPlayer1">
           <param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" />
           <param name="salign" value="lt" />
           <param name="quality" value="high" />
           <param name="scale" value="noscale" />
           <param name="FlashVars" value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=http://www.healthywaterlife.com/videos/historyofkangenwater&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=fals e" />
           <embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" flashvars="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=http://www.healthywaterlife.com/videos/historyofkangenwater&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=fals e" quality="high" scale="noscale" width="605" height="350" name="FLVPlayer1" salign="LT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" />        
</object>
And yes, my server, codero, supports all of the cgi as the old domain worked well and was operating on the codero server.
Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Are you sure that all the files have been uploaded?
The player.swf, the skin.swf, the actual .flv video file, and what about any javascript files used for Flash detection? So that could be as many as 4 files.
To test, paste the entire absolute address to each of those files directly into your browser address bar, like this:
http://www.healthywaterlife.com/videos/FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf
You should not see ANY file not found messages.
After verifying that each file exists on the server, then it's only a matter of correctly pathing all the Flash assets, and pathing includes correctly spelling file names (upper or lower case.. must be exact) as well using correct folder names.
To review Flash pathing:
Pathing issues
Almost always when it works on the local machine and not the server, it's a pathing problem.
You can put your Flash related files in whatever folders you want, they do NOT have to be in the root, they do NOT all have to be in the same folder. But if you have a problem and if sticking them all in the root folder works, then you know that the issue was a pathing problem.
Just remember that paths used in the .swf become relative to the Web page on which the .swf is placed, NOT it’s physical location.  So for example, if your .swf is in the flash/data folder and you use that .swf on a Web page in the root folder, you are in effect, removing that .swf from flash/data and putting it in root. So if the .swf is loading any related files (xml, images, video, etc), the path used inside the .swf to load the .xml file has to be relative to it's new location in root and then back down into flash/data. This is true even though when testing the .swf by itself, it can be inside flash/data and work just fine, since relative to it's location, the path is just fine, they are in the same folder. But if that same path is used when the .swf is placed on a page two folder levels up, the relative path has changed, the old "same folder" path will not work.
In fact if you are placing the .swf on a web page in a different folder than the .swf is stored in, and that .swf calls external assets, then direct clicking and opening of the .swf in it’s folder should NOT work! That’s because the paths to the external assets should be relative to the Web page and not the physical location of the .swf.
So just be sure that you use addresses relative to the final Web page locations (not physical file locations) and you can put the Flash related files in what ever folders you want.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com
If that doesn't fix it, post a link. That really give us the best chance to help you.
Best of luck!
Adninjastrator