flash video player using swfobject.js

December 11th, 2011, 05:55 PM

i was trying to make a flash video playback using swfobject java script. i am using the same swfobject script found in the downloaded codes of the book.
this is the html page coding. there is a folder called flash in the root folder (site) and there is the video called flash_sample.swf in there. i dont know why doesn't it work. it's just a blank page with the text that i enter in the body section: This element can contain.....

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!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>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Adding a flash video playback</title>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        swfobject.embedSWF("flash/flash_sample.swf", "flash_movie", "300", "200", "8.0.0");
    </script>
        
</head>

<body>

    <div id="flash_movie">This element can contain content that search engines can index, and which is helpful to those who do not have Flash installed.</div>

</body>

</html>

bitnap · December 12th, 2011, 09:07 AM

If you are seeing the text inside the <div> that starts "This element can contain...", then it means that the SWF Object script is not replacing the <div> with the Flash movie.

First thing I would check is whether your swfobject.js file is in the same folder as the HTML page - is this where it is (if it is not in the same folder it won't work)?

Second, are you running it from your desktop? If so, which browser / OS are you using?

Third, just to check, are you able to see Flash movies on other web sites ok? (Some new machines come without Flash installed.)

December 12th, 2011, 09:35 AM

Hey thank once again...

the problem was with the location of the script file. it was in a different location. i could solve that. thanks anyway for replying...