FancyBox 1.3.4 with the FLV Player skin quirkiness

[Jarryd C.]

Hey everone,


I noticed some quirkiness with the Flash FLV Player skin and Fancybox
(as you gathered from the subject).

Firstly I setup my Fash document with the FLV Player component, link
to my FLV clip and export as a swf, giving me three files - the
original SWF file, the FLV and the skin for the FLV Player. I set this
up so my FLV is in the same directory as my SWF file.

Basically if I have my FLV player skin residing in the same directory,
say http://mysite.com/media/flash/, as my SWF and FLV file it will
play just fine when not using FancyBox to show the movie.

However if I use FancyBox, the skin does not display. If I move the
FLV Player skin to the root of my website, e.g. http://mysite.com/,
then it works just fine. This is on an anchor like <a href="http://
mysite.com/media/flash/my-flv-movie.swf" class="fancybox-
trigger">Blah</a>.

Not really an issue because if it works then I'm happy, just found it
a bit weird. I'm not too sure if it's something to do with export
settings (local/network access), Flash or Fancybox.

[JFK]

I don't think is a fancybox issue
it sounds more like a path (of your skin) issue
is your video a swf file or a flv file attached to a player ...in
other words, is either:
myvideo.swf
or
player.swf?file=myvideo.flv

if the second, I guess you should attach the full path of the skin
file within the command line when you call it with fancybox
but I am just guessing, unless you want to provide more details or a
live example

On Nov 22, 11:43 pm, "Jarryd C." <jarrydcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everone,
>
> I noticed some quirkiness with the Flash FLV Player skin and Fancybox
> (as you gathered from the subject).
>
> Firstly I setup my Fash document with the FLV Player component, link
> to my FLV clip and export as a swf, giving me three files - the
> original SWF file, the FLV and the skin for the FLV Player. I set this
> up so my FLV is in the same directory as my SWF file.
>
> Basically if I have my FLV player skin residing in the same directory,

> sayhttp://mysite.com/media/flash/, as my SWF and FLV file it will

> play just fine when not using FancyBox to show the movie.
>
> However if I use FancyBox, the skin does not display. If I move the

> FLV Player skin to the root of my website, e.g.http://mysite.com/,