Are you sure the other workstations are all updated with the latest
Flash player? I've never heard of the JW player, but creating a simple
FLV player is a very simple process.

Check your DW8 installation because it seems like something is
missing, or perhaps your site is not configured correctly.

As far as SWFObject goes, you need a .swf that will play an FLV. Flash
doesn't play FLV's directly, but requires a SWF to do so, which sort
of brings us full circle. :)

jord

On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Dan Feather wrote:

>
> Dear experts,
>
> I confess to being VERY confused, and I thought it would be fairly
> straightforward to put some Flash videos into a web site. Agh!
>
> I thought the JW FLV Player looked pretty lean and straightforward,
> but,
> alas, I cannot get it to work correctly on many workstations
> (Windows, MSIE;
> it plays one video, thereafter only audio).
>
> I did WAY too much reading online, and found so many "solutions," but
> figured the next thing to try was the obvious: Dreamweaver 8's
> Insert >
> Media > Flash video. Well, that WAS simple. BUT: it didn't
> work! . . . Not
> even the skin controller would show up.
>
> I keep getting the impression that SWFObject 2 is the current
> universal
> standard, but, so far, I've not been able to find the way to use it
> for a
> .flv file. The online wizard that is supposed to build the code
> seems only
> to want an .swf file.
>
> Am I (at least) on the right track?
>
> I want the simplest thing: a page with a stop-pause-start control, a
> scrubber bar, a volume control, and pix-links to three other similar
> pages,
> each with a .flv video.
>
> Many many thanks in advance!
>
> - dan
>
> who has a JW Player version of these pages at:
>
> http://rightingyourbook.com/pages/keynote-speaker.html

Jordan L. Chilcott, President
Interactivity Unlimited
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