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Flash doesn't load in Opera / Firefox

Hi,

I am playing around and ...Hi,

I am playing around and have Flash Player installed on this website:

http://www.infocusmediaservices.com/aboutus.html

When clicking on the "see our work in action here" link, it doesn't load/play the flash video file when in the Opera or Firefox browsers. It works perfectly in IE. Here is the code for the page that doesn't load. Any suggestions or comments?

Cheers, Jon

:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 1 September 2005), see www.w3.org">
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8"
http-equiv="content-type">
<title>About Us - Medical Imaging Northwest Demo</title>
<style type="text/css">
:link { color: #000099 }
:visited { color: #990099 }
:active { color: #000099 }
body.c3 {color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: black;}
div.c2 {text-align: center}
span.c1 {color: #004F90; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; font-weight: bold}
</style>
</head>
<body class="c3">
<div class="c2"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8" id="minw" height="300" width="450"><param name="movie" value="mediaplayer.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"><param name="FlashVars"
value="file=flash/minw.flv&width=450&height=300&displaywidth=450&displayheight=300&autostart=true&showfsbutton=false&fullscreenpage=fullscreen.html&fsreturnpage=normalscreen.html&shuffle=false&backcolor=0xFFFFFF">
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" name="minw" src="mediaplayer.swf" flashvars="file=video.flv&width=450&height=300&displaywidth=450&displayheight=300&autostart=true&showfsbutton=false&fullscreenpage=fullscreen.html&fsreturnpage=normalscreen.html&shuffle=false&backcolor=0xFFFFFF" height="300" width="450"></object><span class="c1"><br>
<br>
Medical Imaging Northwest - Relocation DVD<br>
(this Flash Video file has been encoded with Flash 8 at 400kbsp)</span></div>
</body>
</html>

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JW Player

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same problem here, can u help?

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JW Player

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Hi

we have the same issue , firefox does not play our videos, infact when we open the site

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player , the player does not show the video, its just displayed as an image

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please make sure your flash plugin is up to date and working in the various browsers: (v.9.0.115 - march 08)
adobe flash versiontest: http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_15507
adobe flash uninstall: http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_14157
adobe flash install: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

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JW Player

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Hi,
I have the same problem with Opera and Firefox not loading the flash.
Adobe Flash player is at 9.0.124.0.
Did anyone find anything further to check?

thanke
Steve

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Hi there,
I have same problem but I find the problem.
If u sent your files internet you will see it will run on firefox or opera. no prob.

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Hi Emre KIYAK, what is the solution??

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whats the solution? same problem here

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I've been having the same problem (at varnaenergysolutions.com). the videos used to work in firefox, but then when I changed some formatting settings for the page (specifically the table that they were located in), all of a sudden now they don't even appear. everything works perfectly in internet explorer, and when I pop a flash video on the page outside of the table, it works in both, so I suspect that there's something weird with putting flash videos inside of tables. i might try using Divs instead to see if that works

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I have had the Adobe support people on the phone in INDIA and get no help trying to load Flash Player on my Firefox. They tell me there's a problem with my new computer. I have been at this for almost 2 hours with no success. This is so frustrating, One company just blames the other. Adobe blames Firefox. Firefox says its Adobe.

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Seems like more than a few are having this problem. I've tried it in IE and have used AVANT where you can block flash content but when that's unticked, it all works fine. But, check it in Firefox and nothing but a blank screen.

Can anyone out there help? There must be loads of people who can't check out our site:

www.kissmet.co.uk

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I have the same trouble too. However, my flash files used to work on my old hosting server on IE/Firefox. Ever since i migrated to a new hosting server, my flash files will refuse to play in firefox!

I cannot seem to understand what the problem is! The files play locally on my computer in Firefox as well as IE but will not play when on the server.

Any advise on this will be much appreciated.

Regards,
Ram
(www.ramkishore.in)

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i have a feeling its something to do with the webserver in my case, coz the html which contains the flash piece plays flawlessly in firefox and safari on my local computer!!

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i am also having this problem, flash works on my computer via firefox, but not when posted to server, it DOES work is IE and Opera, but not Sarafi (on windows) does anyone have any clues? i've been working on this for weeks!

reason: flash not loading firefox

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Some of my visitors wrote the same to me... hope i find any idea here to solve it.

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You may need the double object code.

See this thread: *http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=12169*

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Hi,

Sorry if this has been answered, but I cannot find the answer on this thread, or any of the links given.

I am having the same probem with the flash player not working correctly in Firefox - the link to the page is....

http://www.macmillan-academy.org.uk/zeltha/newpage.php

If you view the site in Internet explorer the two embedded videos play perfectly - however they do not run at all in Firefox, the player seems to load (although not the correct skin) but has all of the icons displayed and fails to load any of the videos.

Is my problem the same as others, and if so, do we have a solution?

Many thanks for your time.

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Hi Sorry,

Just updated my flash plugin in firefox and all works fine now. - I have noticed that the videos play automatically though in Firefox and not in IE. I have set autostart to false.

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I have the problem of the site not loading, or at least not appearing to load. There is just a white screen where the content usually is. The browser says "loaded", view source shows the html as being the normal old stuff. This is happening in firefox and safari, only on a mac, only on a server. Seems to happen more on a slow connection, but not sure. Always seems to load fine on my local computer, in any platform, browser. The site I have, is character driven (big FLV every page). I hope someone figures this out.

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Hi guys,

Maybe I found out the solution!!
I had the same problem in one of my pages at www.cdcitaliandesign.com
the problem was just in one page where the swf movie name was longer than 8 characters.
I tried to rename the swf with 8 characters or less and it shows now!!

bye, max.

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i had the same problem, too: couldn't get the player to show up in "firefox". however, it turns out that in my case, there was no "flash" plug-in at all. so, i did the following:

1. opened up my "firefox" browser
2. clicked on the "Tools" dropdown menu
3. clicked on "Add-ons"
4. clicked on the "Get extensions" hyperlink
5. it took me to a page and i scrolled down until i found the "flash" plug-in
6. clicked on that which took me to the "adobe flash" page
7. downloaded the plug-in exclusively for "firefox, safari, opera, etc"
8. did not even need to restart my computer
9. opened up my webpage, and the "jw player" worked fine with my content

i don't know if other people are having other or different issues, but this is what solved my problem w/the missing "jw player" in my "firefox" browser (haven't checked the "safari" browser on the work computer yet).

all is well (for me) now.

hope this helps at least some people...

--s--

http://www.splashgearusa.com

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the people we want to look at our site won't do that

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i have the same problem . this issue is not closed.

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oh btw and it didn't used to be a problem my site has been stable for over a year

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Same issue

For Windows XP
-IE 7 works
-Mozilla does not work
-Safari does not work
-Youtube videos work on all browsers

For Mac
-Mozilla works
-Safari works
-Youtube videos work on all browsers

Have tried suggestions posted on previous threads about the same issue and no luck.

Need to get the player working for Windows on Mozilla and Safari borwsers.

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Just noticed. Same symptoms apply for the player on the JW site

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player

The code I'm using is derived from this basically which was obtained from the JW installation instructions

<p id='preview'>The player will show in this paragraph</p>

<script type='text/javascript' src='swfobject.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var s1 = new SWFObject('player.swf','player','400','300','9');
s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
s1.addParam('flashvars','file=video.flv');
s1.write('preview');
</script>

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I have the following problem: in IE, the video plays correctly. In Firefox, it plays a totally different video where I don't even know where it comes from.

Now, fact is, that through the stupid intention of Microsoft, the IE interprets the tags in a different way than Firefox. Means, the parameters need to be written in two ways into a web page, in order to achieve the same results with IE and Firefox. Here is a link to an example:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/

I believe, this might be the reason why we encounter different behaviours here, between IE and Firefox. The fault is on side of Microsoft because they tried to change the way, tags are supposed to be, in order to make HTML to a Microsoft domain. But the second fault is on the side of the developers of this nice player, because all their examples don't feature the combined IE&Firefox compatibility. Their examples should have been written in a way, that their player tags are compatible with all web browsers.

I hope the developers read this and react.

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@Sven - you are completely on the safe side if you use the *swfobject* method of embedding (v.1.5 or v.2.1 doesnt matter)
it makes the correct object/embed code for you (in one setting) - the swfobject page - *http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/*

heres some more info on embedding - *http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Embedding_Flash*
and examples using swfobject v.2.1 - *http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Javascript_API_Examples*

but also make sure your flash browser plugin is up to date and working in the various browsers (different for IE and the others)
adobe flash versiontest: *http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_15507*
adobe flash uninstall: *http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_14157*
adobe flash install: *http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash*

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Ok, I'm good. Updated flash within Firefox as andersen suggested.

I had just installed the Flash plugin for Firefox two weeks ago and assumed that the latest version was obtained.

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adobe flash wont install it says i dont have disc space i have 75 gig HDD available

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i tried to download flash player. It does something for like 20 seconds but i still cant view any videos on youtube and i cant view songs on myspace

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I not only have the problem with videos. Half my graphics don't show up! I spent months developing and designing these templates and graphics, and I would love for people with other then internet explorer to see them. Anyone have the answer. I'll look for some codes maybe...

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hey guys...i found the solution i think! although it isn't tested, i heard useing cutting edge technolagy won't work on all browsers, maybe we just need to down step a version.

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I am having similar problems with Firefox: I am using swfobject and the pages just don't load (the flash movies) at all. The swf names are short, so that's not the poblem. Tried the add_on tool but nothing there applicable.

Can any one suggest a solution??

Please....

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no links, no code = unable to help you

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Hi. I'm having a problem viewing my flash player now that I have the newest version of Firefox. When I visit my podcast webpage my player appears grey. If I refresh, then the player appears properly. It seems to work fine in other browsers. Any suggestions.

http://kunstlercast.com

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Hi, the same thing, working great in IE, not working in Mozilla, partialy working in Opera. I suppose the problem is html, I cann't imagine it is the flash movie, as it works fine localy and in IE. Any ideas?

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Opera doesn't support Flash. End of story. I've downloaded Flash player numerous times and ran install for Opera. When I visit a site with Flash (for example: CNN.com video), it tells me I don't have Flash plug-in.

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I am a novice so please forgive,,I have uninstalled flash and when I attempt to re-install and after I close the firefox browser I get the box popping up saying I need to close browser when it is close..any ideas on how to get around this?? Thanks

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I have downloaded the adobe add-on several times in hope that videos and songs would play..
but nothing.

i even changed the setting for vista (as thats what i have) but still no change...
no view of videos
or music online.

help.

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btw, im using mozilla.

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Okay so I found this, don't remember were but still, after i used this the movie started to load^^

<div id="player">Javasctipt required.</div>
<script type='text/javascript' src='swfobject.js'></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('player.swf','mpl','480','270','8');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addVariable('height','270');
so.addVariable('width','480');
so.addVariable('file','Mirrors_Edge_Mirrors_Edge_vs_Portal.flv');
so.addVariable('backcolor','0x000000');
so.addVariable('frontcolor','0xAAAAAA');
so.addVariable('lightcolor','0x666666');
so.addVariable('searchbar','false');
so.addVariable('enablejs','false');
so.addVariable('autostart','false');
so.write('player');
</script>
</div>

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First Close u r firebox browser and install flash player then worked easily

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hi all

the problem migth be with the web servers!

if I test my page from the web server via firefox it doesnt work though it works via internet explorer.

so i tried to test by page via firefox from my hardware and it worked. that might be mean that firefox and my swf files work together.

maybe this information will help to us. lets think about that

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I believe none of this is the problem or the solution.
I have the same problem now and it is because I wrongly edited the html part.

i will post the solution in my next post.

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okay, a simple remark:
if you have plugin for firefox, the swf file should run without embeding it into a html.
but it does not run from server.
so any of HTML codes should be unneccecary!

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or simply download a html containing an swf file which works via firefox.
then correct the name of the swf file in the html code, upload them to your server and check if they work or not ;)

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I just registerd my page at another free supplier, and everything works via i.e and via firefox.

thanks for your help, good luck folks

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I have the same problem too, the Adobe flash installer says that it is a version for opera/mozilla/safari. In my PC I have both Opera and Firefox and the installer removes the files from the Firefox plugin directory and installs it it copies those in the Opera directory. (you can see at the end the 'installation details'). I tried to copy the files to the Firefox directory but did not work and it looks like Firefox should now use the plugin from windows/system32/.... On another PC I tried to remove Opera and the Flash player worked in Firefox after install.

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ready for the solution?

It is called MIME problems.

It means the server who is serving the swf's is not actually recognizing it as a proper file to send. You can google further, but basically the solution is to wait your server will do that eventually, (for me it took about hours) or do something if you are the admin to look for this MIME problem.

That is the solution and if you think differently then you will go try many things and still waste time really. Most of the cases this is the problem. My problem even showed at godaddy which has a reputation.

Encouragements,

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The problem most of you might have is a plug-in called adblock..it can block swf files from showing.. just disable or remove it plug-in and it should work.
hope this helps.

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I have a similar problem, but my video loads in firefox. For some strange reason every now and then my video will either stop at a certain part or won't play at all until i restart firefox. Locally everything works great and I don't have any problems with IE, locally or not.

I'm using Firefox 3.0.7 with the latest flash.

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Try adding the affected site to your list of pop-up block exceptions. That worked for me with videos not playing (just a white box) at Gizmodo.com.

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listen carefully..
1. if you install the flash player after you install the explorers.. it wont recognized it.. try to uninstall your explorer.. install the flashplayer and then the explorer..
2. try using older versions of flash player.. it works for others..
3. mozilla firefox 3 is very sophisticated with the plug-ins try using version mf2. because if you install version mf1 it will automatically update to version mf2.

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Listen carefully.... Don't use Opera or Firefox. The problem is with their browsers not your code.

IE has absolutely no problem installing / running Flash files embedded in websites so why do the other browsers have issues? Bad programmers?

Your average joe needs plug and play. Do you really think they can go in looking at code or go rummaging thru plug-in directories - thats why I (as a web designer) always recommend IE for browsing to my clients and their potential viewers.

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Right.... so 90% of users use Firefox and other browsers, when will their be a fix for this annoying issue??

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sigh... I am running the RC for windows 7 and it doesn't even have this operating system... I know there is a way for flash to work on firefox because i had it doing so earlier with the beta but i forgot how. Any suggestions?

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seriously, IE is not what you should be using. EVER!, most noncompliance issues are a result of people using IE. if your browser plugin is not the latest, get the latest.
you should be checking your sites in all majors browsers, (even that garbage IE6) for good practices.


it scares me that you call yourself a designer.

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I have had an issue with the flash file loading, but not importing images in firefox and opera. It worked in IE though.

It turns out the commerce package i was using set the <base href="example.com"> in the header.
However I was viewing the page using www.example.com.
This meant that flash would not load the files in firefox and opera, but it would load them in IE.
Go figure.

I hope that helps.

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whups forgot the important bit:
To fix the issue, remove the <base href="example.com"> tag and it should all work.

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Hi all. I encountered the same problem today. Flash did not work nor in FF neither in Opera, but worked fine in IE, Chrome and Safari.
The solution was to replace the html code for flash picked from adobe (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/415/tn_4150.html) with the one generated by swfobject (http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/). However, I did not use the swfobject.js itself just copy-pasted the code that it generates and stripped js part off.

So, my initial code, which falied in FF and Opera, looked like this:
bc.. <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" id="myMovieName"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="myFlashMovie.swf"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF><EMBED href="/support/flash/ts/documents/myFlashMovie.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="500" HEIGHT="500" NAME="myMovieName" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED></OBJECT>


And the final working code is:
bc.. <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="500" height="500" id="banner1">
<param name="movie" value="myFlashMovie.swf" />
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="myFlashMovie.swf" width="500" height="500">
<!--<![endif]-->
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
<img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" />
</a>
<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
</object>



Hope that will have someone to manage it quicker than i did :)

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It finally worked yay! in IE8, Opera 10 and FF3

Thanks!

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My flash movie didn't play in FireFox (FlashPlayer 10), but did in the rest (IE8, Chrome, Opera, Safari (for Windows), all with Flashplayer 10). I tried adding the "data" attribute to the object tag and it worked in all browsers. Perhaps that's the problem. Code below worked for me.

bc.. <object id="objectTagID" height="515" width="790" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="flashName.swf">
<param name="align" value="middle" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="fullVar=value1" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<param name="movie" value="flashName.swf" />
<embed src="flashName.swf" FlashVars="fullVar=value1" quality=high bgcolor=#ffffff width="790" height="515" name="objectTagID" align="middle"
allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>
</object>

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Jammy Devil is a douche.

The problem is with Microsoft and their attempt to push lame, proprietary HTML "solutions" onto the unsuspecting public, harming the industry in the process.

The <object> classid attribute is only recognized by IE and only works on MS WinDoze systems. Instead, as Georgiy showed above, supply a mime type by using type="application/x-shockwave-flash" attribute inside the object tag.

As a consumer, avoid using IE as much as possible, and instead support standards compliant browsers like Firefox and Chrome.

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I had this issue for a while. Just spent an hour on it.

To get it to work for myself I needed the data attribute for the object tag.

I also had the param move

I also had the src attribute of the embed tag

So the movie file name was used in three places. Hope this helps.

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Had the same issue. Fixed it by changing <object id="FlashID" ...> to something different (like FlashID67). Then at the end of the file: swfobject.registerObject("FlashID67");

Worked like a charm :)

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I've been reading all the workarounds and trying to apply everyone's fixes to my own problem but I am still stumped. I tried Georgly's code and got an error message on the page so I must not have been doing that right. The orignal page is here: http://www.eddiezs.com and the page I was trying to fix it with is here: http://www.eddiezs.com/index-test.html (current code has basic insert code from Dreamweaver CS3)

Any ideas? like everyone else, this does not work in Firefox but it I can get it to work in Firefox locally. The index-test.html page that is. The orginal version on the main home page broke after Flash 10 was released. This was an older implementation that I did not develop but it did work up to Flash 9.

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I have, not the same, but a similar problem? I go on a flash chat called Userplane.com . Until about a week ago, I was able to go onto over 10 chats at once, and run many flash java scripts at once-- however, as of lately, the minute I open a second flash script, the entire browser freezes. I can't click on anything, though the posts that people enter, continue to go through. I can see them posting. I don't think it's a virus, and I've tried uninstalling opera with RevoUninstaller which gets rid of all the related programs and features. I re-downloaded opera 10, and I'm still having the problem. I've updated the plug ins, updated all the flash programs I could think of. I can be on multiple java scripts, but almost as soon as I do, the Opera browser wont let me click anything, and I have to physically close it from the Task Manager.

If you have a solution to this, please contact me...
Ancientwing@live.com
Subject: Userplane/Flash problem solution

[Thanks]

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Hey, developers! Why adding player using wizard script doesn't work in Opera and Firefox on Windows? You don't want anyone to buy your product? Or it's a kind of Internet Explorer cult?

UPD: got the problem - was not having flash plugin on both opera and firefox. But is it problem in me? Actually not, because when I go to any other site that using flash I get a _notification_ that I need Flash plugin to be installed.

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it's up to the developer*_YOU_*to specify a minimum required Flash Player version and to provide an alternate content message that informs the user that they need to upgrade their Flash Player

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My shockwave Flash plugin always fails on you- tube videos every time I click on full screen mode. This only happens in Opera 10.10 browser. It does not happen when I use firefox 3.6 beta 3 or Chrome 3.

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Hi
not sure i'm on right place but need your help. Apologize for my bad english, hope you will understand my problem.

I create page wih big flash header. It work fine in all browsers.
I want to create page with same flash header, so I save as..this page in dreamweaver under different name in different folder for eg.
index.html page (with flash header) i save as : company/profile.html where I want to have same flash header.
It works fine in opera 10, IE6/7/8, Chrome, Safari but not in firefox. In firefox flash on index page works perfect but not on profile.html page where instead of flash i have "get flash player" icon.
If i put profile.html in root instead folder /company then its working in firefox but I want to keep page in subfolder.

I'm using script:

<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
swfobject.registerObject("tehelflash", "9.0.0", "js/src/expressInstall.swf");
</script>
</head>


<body>
<div id="main_flash">
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="763" height="264" id="tehelflash" name="mainFlash" class="main_flash">
<param name="movie" value="../swf/main_flash.swf" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="swf/main_flash.swf" width="763" height="264" class="main_flash">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
<!--<![endif]-->
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
<img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" class="ico" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" /></a>

<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
</object>
</div>

</body>


Help!

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Hi-
I shortened th flash file name (and edited the code) to be less than 8chars and it worked fine now, like someone else said in the post

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Hello its very simple just go in Opera to Tools - Quick Preferences- Enable Plug-Ins,worked for me,just try

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I had flash appear in IE but NOT in Firefox. My solution was to use the "embed" tag in the scripting.
<embed src="indexFlashImages/wed.swf" width="100%">
</embed>

Unfortunately when you validate you will get 3 errors where it says you can't use embed this way...but it works!

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Hey Guys I am not sure it's gonna work for you all, but
I had same problem and now it's fixed. You don't need to download a new version of flash or enable anything on your browser. I just changed some lines on html code. Now I have a music player so I guess for videos it's different. Anyway parameters to be modified are :
-codebase=
-value=".swf" />
-<embed src=".swf"


The entire code is something like this:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="30" height="20">
<param name="movie" value=".swf" />
<param name="quality" value="best" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="width=30&height=20&showslider=0&mp3=.mp3" />
<embed src="swf" FlashVars="width=30&height=20&showslider=0&mp3=.mp3" width="30" height="20" quality="best" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED></OBJECT>




I am pretty sure this won't help anyone but at least I am showing you it's possible to let it work on every browser. Just fix the code.

And go to my website and listen to some good music :)


*http://themetropolismedia.com*

Next problem to solve: How to autoplay this

See you

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<head>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="scripts/detectFlash.js"></script>

</head>


<td><table width="930" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="300" valign="top">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="c.swf?path=movie.swf"
width="300" height="264">
<param name="movie"
value="images/home-flash.swf" />
</object>
</td>

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I had this problem, where a flash movie would load fine, but it wouldn't play a f4v video in firefox.

Looks like the problme is to do with apache not passing the content length properly. I solved this by forcing off g-zip compression on the server with the .htaccess rule

SetEnv no-gzip dont-vary

You could probably do something a bit smarter to only disable compression for f4v files, but I'm happy with it working like this for now.

Hope this helps.

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I had the same problem.. The flash application did do his work with IE, but leaves blank with firefox.

the code was

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="915" height="646"">
<param name="movie" value="flash.swf" />
</object>

Reading the comment from Andy Wyatt I added the 'data='
and the code is:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="915" height="646" data="flash.swf">
<param name="movie" value="flash.swf" />
</object>

Now it does work wit IE and firefox (I use XHTML code)

tnx

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@yeslian – This is blank in Firefox because Firefox only recognizes <embed> code, and <object> is for IE.

This will work in both:

<object id="player" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" name="player" width="328" height="200">
<param name="movie" value="player.swf" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />

<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="flashvars" value="file=video.flv&image=preview.jpg" />
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="player2" name="player2" src="player.swf" width="328" height="200" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=video.flv&image=preview.jpg" />
</object>

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I finnaly fixed my Opera after I've reinstalled my windows, I found the solution how to fix.

1.Go to the "Menu"
2.Select "Settings"
3.Go to "Quick Preferences" or just press F12
4.Enable plug-ins, Java Scrips and that's all.

I hope it works.


Bye!

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Lots of people having the same problem but i'm not finding that anyone has an answer. Anybody a solution??????

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Ethan Feldman

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@dawa – Please provide a link.

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Same problem as everyone else...JW player works fine in IE, but doesn't even show up in Firefox. I downloaded the latest versions of Firefox and Adope Flash player, but still no luck. An example page that works fine in IE, but not in Firefox is:

http://www.bountifulquartet.com/videos/jw_player_test.php

I have a paid version of the player and I have been suprised that I have issues with the player not working in Firefox.

Can anyone offer a suggestion? (The video is a large file and may need to be buffered a little before playing. I understand this. My problem is that the JW Player does not even appear when viewing the page in Firefox.)

Thanks!

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I found the solution to my problem of the JW Player not working in Firefox, even though it worked in IE.

On a lark, I moved the 3 support files; (player-licensed.swf, swfobject.js & video.flv), directly to the same directory as the video file. I then reprocessed the video using the new locations via the setup wizard.

After moving the files as stated above, the video now works on both IE and Firefox. I had always previously thought that just having the support files on the same domain was sufficient as long as I referenced their locations correctly in the setup wizard.

Since I made no other changes to get the video playing in Firefox, my assumption is that the support files must be in the same exact directory as the video being played.

If anyone has any thoughts I this, I would really like to hear them.

Thanks

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Ethan Feldman

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Hi Rich,

The file locations shouldn’t matter, as long as the code is referencing the files correctly.

That being said, it looks like your link is down now – http://www.bountifulquartet.com/videos/jw_player_test.php

Do you have another test page?

Best,
-Ethan

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hi
i have downloaded opera recently but i don't find it useful... when it comes to video playing... i even downloaded the flash plug in for opera,while installation it shows error.can any one help me out with it.... plzzzz.... help someone....




regards,
kam

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Can you provide a link to where you are running this?

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is there anyone here from the longtailvideo.com administration reading this thread?? we are paying for your flash player but it does not show up in major web browsers? you better try to fix this problem.

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@devha – Can you provide a link to where you are running this? That would be very helpful!

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Thanks Peter Smith. Your solution helpeded me...

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when embedding swf dreamweaver CS4 generates
bc.. <object id="FlashID2" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="500" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="file:///E|/folder/black.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
<!-- This param tag prompts users with Flash Player 6.0 r65 and higher to download the latest version of Flash Player. Delete it if you dont want users to see the prompt. -->
<param name="expressinstall" value="../Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
<!-- Next object tag is for non-IE browsers. So hide it from IE using IECC. -->
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="file:///E|/folder/black.swf" width="500" height="400">
<!--<![endif]-->
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
<param name="expressinstall" value="../Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
<!-- The browser displays the following alternative content for users with Flash Player 6.0 and older. -->
<div>
<h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
</div>
<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
</object>


REMOVE line bc.. <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />

then it works in Opera, EI, Chrome, Firefox

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i have the same problem but a little bit different, Opera and firfox load a simple flash which i uploaded as banner,but they can't show another flash as banner using xml files.

Does anyone know what's the problem?

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@T.SH – Can you provide a link?

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I still have this problem ... Flash Player is 10.1.102 ... and still I have problems whit FireFox and some Video streams in flash ... not youtube .. but others that IE plays without any problems .. kinda sucky

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@b0ksah – Provide a link.

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I have created a flash slide show for my website. I can preview it flawlessly in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. When I go to preview it in Opera, It is not visible at all. But, if I click on the mouse anywhere other than the Opera browser window that I am trying to view, it suddenly appears. (desktop, other file windows...) The odd thing is that it appears in progress, not from the start. Like it had been playing all along, just not visible. Suggestions??? Thank you in advance.

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Provide a link please.

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http://www.bc.edu/sites/ides/jeremy_clark/ricci.html

Hi Ethan,

Above is a link that plays in Safari (5.0.2) (Mac Snow Leopard 10.6.4) but white-screens on Firefox (3.6.13) on the same machine. So weird that all these people above like to complain but not help you troubleshoot.

Good Luck!
Scott

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Ethan Feldman

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Switch these lines around:

<div id='mediaspace'></div> <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bc.edu/sites/ides/jw/swfobject.js'></script>

So it looks like this:

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.bc.edu/sites/ides/jw/swfobject.js'></script><div id='mediaspace'></div>

Also you should put it in a full HTML page.

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SOLUTION:
HI i had been having the same problem with flash player nt working in opera. I just went to tool menu-quick preferences-and click on enable plug-ins..the problem was immediately solved!!!!!!!!

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