Flash HTML movie won't play

[jwatt@bennett-watt.com]

I just published a short movie from Flash CS4 and placed the entire set of files at this URL http://hdtravelentertainment.com/BW1/BW Flash5_09/Page-1/ and when my web designer or me for that matter double clicks on the HTML file the movie doesn't play. We get a black screen and at the bottom of the frame in the progress bar a little green & white zebra like moving line.

I'm pretty sure this is how I've delivered movies from CS3. I'm obviously missing something obvious here, but I haven't a clue.

Thanks for any advice. If I double click on the HTML file on my machine that has Flash installed it works great. The .FLV file plays correctly in media player also.

thx...jw

 

[craigbowman]

I just published a short movie from Flash CS4 and placed the entire set of files at this URL http://hdtravelentertainment.com/BW1/BW Flash5_09/Page-1/ and when my web designer or me for that matter double clicks on the HTML file the movie doesn't play. We get a black screen and at the bottom of the frame in the progress bar a little green & white zebra like moving line.

I'm pretty sure this is how I've delivered movies from CS3. I'm obviously missing something obvious here, but I haven't a clue.

Thanks for any advice. If I double click on the HTML file on my machine that has Flash installed it works great. The .FLV file plays correctly in media player also.

thx...jw

Make sure your file path reference to the flv is relative and not absolute. Otherwise, you'll likely have stuff like "file:///" etc. in front of the file name instead of just the file name referenced to the FLV player. Putting it on a remote site therefore, will screw up.