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bleutuna
June 27th, 2007, 04:20 AM
Not sure why this is happening. Simple movie clip , just says when you click the button, go to the next frame, where the .FLV is residing and that's set to autoPlay.

Works great on my local machine. As soon as I uploaded - broken. The video won't play. Makes no sense at all.

Anyone else run into this? All the videos ARE on the server, so there's no reason why it shouldn't be working.

http://www.dansteinmetz.com

File location: http://www.dansteinmetz.com/editorReelastm.fla
LeiaGraf
June 28th, 2007, 04:13 AM
You need to have the contentPath in the component player relative, not absolute. At the moment it's set up to look on your E:, but it obviously can't do that on the net. I don't know what your file structure is, but assuming that you've just got the flvs in the same directory as the swf, all you need to do is have "danSteinmetzDemoReelResized.flv".

(Oh my gods, a question I could answer!) Hope that helps.
bleutuna
June 28th, 2007, 10:45 AM
Wow. Awesome! A REPLY :D

OKay, where is that set? Because I never *chose* to make that absolute to my own harddrives, I guess it just happened? I didn't even think that was an option :p
LeiaGraf
June 28th, 2007, 08:30 PM
Yeah, it probably just happened. It's annoying how they do that (hmm, I'd better check that in my latest project too!). Just select your flv player component, click the "parameters" tab in your properties window, and look for contentPath. You should just be able to click or double-click on it and just delete out the bits you don't want.


Have fun!
knvb1123
June 29th, 2007, 12:54 AM
Absolute:

www.somesite.com/folder1/FLV1.flv

Relative:

your FLASH FILE:
www.somesite.com/folder1/index.swf
your FLV File:
FLV1.flv

It makes Flash relax from all its security boundaries by NOT having an absolute path.

Now is the time we ask Adobe to abolish Flash securities... I mean if I really wanted to install Spyware and destroy a computer or download a file without prompting, I could do it in JAVA, so what's the point of having flash restrictions when there are other better (for malicious attacks) tools?

:puzzle: