Play flash video with skin.

[Tom]

I have Adobe Flash CS3 and I'm having trouble displaying a skin on my
flash video using SWFObject. I'm using the following steps:
Create new Flash File (ActionScript 3.0)
Import/Video - I select an AVI file to import
Select Progressive download from a web server as the Deployment method
Leave all the Encoding options at default
Choose the SkinUnderPlaySeekMute.swf as the skin
Update the Source property to http://www.mywebsite.com/video/myvideo.flv

The skin appears fine when I use Flash Player 9 to view the video.

I've tried so many combinations of SWFObject that I would like a fresh
start at how to write the code for this. It seems so straight forward
but I've been racking my brain for a couple of days now. Has anyone
else had this problem? I read a couple of other posts on this subject
but they didn't help.

Thanks,

Tom

[Aran Rhee]

Tom.

The skin file is a separate .swf file. Have you placed it in the same folder
as your player swf ?

[Tom]

Yes it is in the same folder. I have four files; MyVideo.fla,
MyVideo.flv, MyVideo.swf and SkinUnderPlaySeekMute.swf. I don't know
what I'm missing. Can you share a SWFObject code snipit that would
play this video?

On Apr 22, 12:46 am, "Aran Rhee" <aran.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom.
>
> Theskinfile is a separate .swf file. Have you placed it in the same folder

> as your player swf ?
>
>
>
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> Behalf Of Tom
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> Subject: Play flash video withskin.
>

> I have Adobe Flash CS3 and I'm having trouble displaying  askinon my

> flash video using SWFObject.  I'm using the following steps:
> Create new Flash File (ActionScript 3.0)
> Import/Video - I select an AVI file to import
> Select Progressive download from a web server as the Deployment method
> Leave all the Encoding options at default
> Choose the SkinUnderPlaySeekMute.swf as theskin
> Update the Source property tohttp://www.mywebsite.com/video/myvideo.flv
>

> Theskinappears fine when I use Flash Player 9 to view the video.

>
> I've tried so many combinations of SWFObject that I would like a fresh
> start at how to write the code for this.  It seems so straight forward
> but I've been racking my brain for a couple of days now.  Has anyone
> else had this problem?  I read a couple of other posts on this subject
> but they didn't help.
>
> Thanks,
>

> Tom- Hide quoted text -
>
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[Mars]

I'm having essentially the same problem (I think) except that the
ArcticOverAll skin works for me. I just can't make any of the others
show up - I've tried 5 or 6 others. I have repeatedly and carefully
followed the same steps as you and whenever I choose the ArcticOverAll
skin it works but all other skins I've tried simply don't show up.

To me it doesn't look like a swfobject issue, but since I'm new to
flash I don't yet know where to look. My call to swfobject is the same
in all cases:

- swfobject.embedSWF("/video/test6/vTest.swf", "myContent", "320",
"240", "9.0.0");

I get the same results in Firefox and ie7 - the video plays but the
skin doesn't show up.

[Aran Rhee]

Mars

And you are sure that when you authored the vTest.swf that it was defining
the correct skin to load? With the FLVPlayback component you have to specify
which skin you want to use in the component properties.

Try publishing your you file with the HTML option selected in the Flash IDE
and see if it works with the standard <object> / <embed> code. If it works
there, then you should be all set to convert it to SWFObject code.

Aran

[morticya33]

Hey all,

It works when you publish with the HTML option - which probably means
that swfobject (2.0 version from Google) doesn't quite work for
videos, no?

Anyone found a solution?

Regards,
Jill

[Aran Rhee]

Jill.

SWFObject 2.0 definitely works for videos (as hundreds of thousands of
developers / users know).

If you post your non-working page then perhaps we can see what you are doing
wrong.

[morticya33]

Ahh, sorry, it's my bad, I found out that I needed to custom URL my
player skin! :D

Thanks for your prompt response though. :)