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lorenzo816

Hard to explain but I'll try.
In Flash CS4, I reference the player skin for the swf and the FLV video file... correctly with Full Absolute URLs.
then post the swf and have the HTML code correctly done with the class 'gallery'.... but the videos wont play.

I got them playing now - But I had to break the 'rules' in order to do so.
And honestly dont know why they are playing now at all.

What I mean:

I took out the absolute URL call for the player SWF and the F4V/FLV files and did them root relative in the FLA file.
Publish and Repost them online then in my HTML it doesn't matter if I use a absolute path, relative, or root-down pathway....to call the SWF's.... because here's what happens.

If you look at page activity (Safari) or page info (firefox) What happens in the URL when the SWF is called to play is this:
""""""
http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/Resources/Video/monkeysee/1_Maintenance_vs_Repair.swf?s/Video/monkeysee/1_Maintenance_vs_Repair.swf?width=512&height=288
"""""
As you can see if takes my full URL and writes it and then cuts it off and starts to write half of it again after the Question mark.
I think it has something to do with the javascript where it asks for """filename""" in the prettyPhoto.js file.
just guessing though.

I'd really like to know how to fix this.

Kodachi

Hi there..

I've had the same problem recently.
the Url is checked for the parameter flashvars - if there is no flashvar given, it will do a substring from -1+10 to the end of the url

try adding a flashvar like "flashvar=parameter=value" to your url:
http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/Resources/Video/monkeysee/1_Maintenance_vs_Repair.swf?flashvar=parameter=value&width=512&height=288
Then you will see the Url will look like this:
http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/Resources/Video/monkeysee/1_Maintenance_vs_Repair.swf?parameter=value&width=512&height=288

Hope this helps

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