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 Post subject: Placed files wont play from local drive?
PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:40 pm 
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I am creating documentation for a program that is in HTML format. When users press 'F1' while in the program, it will open the default browser with the default 'index.html' page, that will be 'installed' on their local hard drive. Most pages will eventually have inline video on them and I am trying to use the web stunning video player to accomplish this.

I have placed one video as a test, and it seems to work fine on my local machine, but once the pages are built into the app, I always get the error "unable to locate file xxxx.flv" in the player, even though the files are there in the correct location. The files are "served" locally from the users hard drive, and it appears that the relative paths are all correct in the code, so I cannot figure out why it will work on my system regardless of location (I've copied the file structure all over the place and it always works for me in numerous browsers, even when run from our file server) but none of our users can get the video to work at all. Any help would be *greatly* appreciated. Thanks-
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 Post subject: Re: Placed files wont play from local drive?
PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:59 am 
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Maybe you have javascript disabled.

To load .flv file Flash player needs to know HTML file URL.
A javascript command helps to get HTML URL to the flv player.

If it's impossible to enable javascript in your app, try to place the "player.swf" in the same folder with HTML file.

Replace the file path "Player_files/player.swf"
with "player.swf"

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 Post subject: Re: Placed files wont play from local drive?
PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:17 pm 
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I realized the error, the flash player, by default, disallows local content from playing, so one needs to manually allow their local systems in the security preferences. Ouch, what a headache for our support department. I guess I need to find another solution. Thank you for the feedback though, most appreciated.


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