Thread: Problems with an SWF file

Hi hope someone can help.

I have added a SWF using the add flash button, but when I preview in browser it automatically plays, I have unchecked the auto play option. What am I not doing? I want it to play only when the user clicks on it,

That same video took over most of the screen when I opened it in the browser, so I reduced it by dragging the anchor points in the page editor and when I previewed it in the browser the next time I could only view about 30% of what was being shown. the setting I have are:
Version: 8.0.0.0
Quality: high
Scale: excat fit
Window mode: window

In short I want to be showing my video on my site very much like they do on youtube (but I dont want to put them on youtube.....well not all of them!

Did you make the swf file yourself or get from a source. in most cases you should have a html with it which gives you a code like the one below.

Code:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
 codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
 width="200" height="200" id="NewsReader" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="sitenews.swf"/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="salign" value="lt" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="sitenews.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="200" height="200"
 name="NewsReader" scale="noscale" salign="lt" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
 pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>

This sort of code would be placed into a html box on your page.
also if your swf is a video it will always start play unless controls are built into the swf file or played though a flash video player.

Thanks for the reply, but im slightly confused. You have put in some code, should I be bale to locate that on my page? if so where etc or do I put that in myself? if so where do I place the HTML box and how does it affect the video. I made the SWF file myself (a video of me using software on screen) would it be better to use a different file type eg WMA, quicktime or real player to get the results I want? If so can you suggest a free file converter I can get hold of that will do the job?

Many thanks

Now depends on the software you made the screen capture video with, most good one's will publish the made video in a player which is embedded into a html page that is also made at time of publishing, simply opening the html page in a good text editor you see the code usually wrapped in <object></object> or <script></script> tags like the one above.
Now if you software does not come with the option to add the player then it's little harder as you need one to set the play controls.
Check the software or post here the make or website.

It was recored with BB flashback express2 (free edition)

Your in luck BB is one of the ones i have, when you export the finished video by clicking export top left button. you get a box that comes up with your export file options. click Flash the mext box is were you have all the options. ie; Audio, html template also can change the Playback Controls. once you have done click the export button. save it as the name you want. let the export finish completely. once it's finished it should open a preview page you will see the video with its controls also a box below that says Copy this code into your page: do exactly that placing the code into a html box on your BV page.

if for some reason the page doesn't open after export go to the folder where you saved the video and double click on the html file.

this should be the same for the free version but you will have a watermark on the finished video.

thanks for that, any idea why it would take ages to load up in my brower, its only a small file, less than 1MB

Is it possible to get code from videos already recorded?

Not sure but I know on the software I use I can cut the movie into sceens which helps alot on larger movies, can't check BB at the moment as not at pc but I will check when i get back and get to you.

You can use the same code for all just change the name of SWF file within the code. Also change the width height if you require.

I have managed to get the HTML code, put in to the HTML box, set the box to the height and width I want, but the video still plays the same size (full screen) and all the viewer can see is the area of the video where the box is placed. It dosnt seem to matter how I resize the HTML box the video size stays the same. I have tried to re-size in the HTML code by setting height:50% width:50%, but that just seems to reduce the box b half :S

What am I doing wrong now???

you have to work in pix in the code and not &#37;.

if you want copy the files into a folder zip it and send it to me and ill have a look for you see what going on. use the contact form on my site below.

I have never felt this thick!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for that offer, I have gone to your websites contact form, and cant seem to find an option to add a file. I know this is simple stuff and I should be able to do it. Thanks so much for your time :D

Alternativly, do you know of any free software that I can download that does a drag and drop feature, ive looked at a few but get confused with their limitations, I am looking for one to totally remove all need to get involved with HTML

Doooohh sorry forgot that one hasn't got one, lol

Try this one. Here

Thanks for the offer of trying to help me with the video, but im gunna opt for the easy option and upload to google and embed the video into my site that way. Once I get it all up and running I will have a go at getting it how I rely want it. Thanks for your help aliendude.

PS
Do you only provide web design assistance or do you sell domain names/space etc, if so you have yourself a customer (a whole on ebet that make a difference;)) when im ready to go on-line:)

Ok, what am i not doing now????:s

My video is of suitable size, I can get it to maximise to full screen on request...it will even only ATTEMPT to start upon request........
WHEN I PRESS PLAY IN THE PREVIEW WINDOW ALL I GET IS A SYMBOL WITH LOADS OF LITTLE CIRCLES GOING ROUND IN A CLOCKWISE DIRECTION?!?!?!?

and I thought id cracked it:s

cancel that.....sorted now, thanks anyway :)