Well I came across my first runin with FF today. I was working with a friend of mine on some XHTML complient code with Flash objects in it. As such we hadda remove the embed tag from the code wrapping the Flash object. IE would display it correctly but FF wouldn't show the Flash at all.

We found this site and it shold work for us - just wanted to pass it on...

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

Nice!!! Thanks for passing that along!!! Now if I could only get Windows Media Player (or some "universal" media player) to load in FF and play WMV's...

u know i had a code work around for that in the flash section

http://forums.hostmysite.com/viewtopic.php?t=497

thats just not a ff issue thats actually doing it right and also staying away from the ebolis ls

to load in FF and play WMV's
use flash with flv's, much nicer stream in

BUT... do I need a swf to play the movies? I don't know sh!t about swf... Dave... Help me... Show me the light...

I thought I had read a thread about the embed tag on this forum somewhere...this however explains why it works etc...a little more detail for anyone who wants it...

btw, this needs to be dynamic... i need to be abled to feed a dynamic movie name into the swf file

thats not a problem josh
they can run from a db or even flashvar in the html code
explain exactly what u need to do and i'll tell ya

yeah 1 swf can run many movies
look at this, its 1 i made for kelly
http://www.jamwerx.com/kelly/1/kelly.html

took me maybe 10 minutes to make that
only prob was if u let the vid go all the way through it wouldnt go to next vid but i just needed to add an empmty clip in there that i forgot, whoops

Okay... if you got http://talbotvideo.com and enter one of those categories, and see the items in that category... the Play Video links (which I'm going to use to use MMS streaming... that was just decided today) open a window. That is only one file to which I dynamically load these movies - of course. So, if I can use a swf and feed it these MMS links dynamically that'd be ideal. Got me?

yeah but they'd need to be in flv format

so this would need a whole nother conversion after being converted to WMV? The point was to have these running thru Windows Streaming media server (MMS)... :/

Well, then we can offer tow options. how difficult is it to convert WMV to FLV? What tools do I need? Will I lose any quality?

i use sorenson squeeze but there is a freebie one out there
you might also check out MM's video service
quicktime will do it too

http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=7574E
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/video.html?promoid=home_dev_flash_video_021104
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/mirrorimage_flashvideo.html


somewhere there is a free flv converter, i'll look
yeah the video is just as good and a lot smaller file

Riva FLV converter... got it Thx.

So now what do I need to get the dynamic swf file?

explain 2 me how u have it now and we'll make sumptin up
to bad this isnt a few weeks from now cause we''l be having a lot of vids like that on www.icandfashion.com, which im just starting to work on

Right now, I pull the movie filename from a db via a recordid passed in the querystring... As simple as that. From there it loads the movie.