Flash Site Design - Flash Movie within Flash Website

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Flash Movie within Flash Website

cantfindanickname

2007-11-20, 10:15 pm

I have a Flash website, created from a template. I believe the website was
created in Flash MX. I am using Flash8 Professional and have all available
updates loaded.

I added a movie clip to one of the website pages using the "Import Video"
function of Flash8. I used one of the player skins in the import module
(clearall). When I test the movie on my local PC, it works fine. I published
it (using the option to load it from an external server - but not a Flash
Progressive Server) and moved the new .swf website file and the .swf skin file
along with the movie clip .flv file to the website and checked the website .swf
file. Plays great. Nice skin, movie plays. Happy me.

Unfortunately, looking at the page in a browser there is only a black
rectangle there where the skin and the movie should be. After several emails
and phone calls to my web hosting company and the template company (both
getting to level 2 support), they both believe I've done everything properly.
One guy suggested I use a Action Script to play the movie clip instead of the
embedded viewer skin.

Good to hear except the movie still has no player and you can't see any clip
there.

I really need to figure out what is wrong here. Sure could use some help.
Thanks in advance.....

Sketchsta

2007-11-21, 6:15 pm

Have you by any chance changed the Publish settings to Flash Actionscript 2.0?
worth a try.

Also, i know this is probably a silly question....but i gotta get the basics
out of the way first..=)
have you got Flash Player installed on your browsers?

Maybe play with the settings on import video... eg.. change the loading from
external server.
I dont have much experience with loading .flv's into flash... but im guessing
that since your flv and swf are in the same directory on the server, thats not
exactly loading from external server..
maybe something is going wrong there??

let me know how it goes.