Dreamweaver 8 cs3

[divebuddy]

I upgraded to adobe cs3 a few months ago. However I found that since this all my video and anitmated gif on the website went. I've fixed the photos but I am finding the following happening.

On my test/backup of the website and can load photos and add and watch video with no problems. However if I load the video file onto the live site, then I just get a grey or white screen. I've tried embeding a player in the code, but all I get again is a white screen where the player should be. I've created a a swf file which plays on the laptop with the backup site with no problems. I've even copied a flash player direct to the site. AM I still mising some form of files, that are perhaps being accessed on the backup site via the adobe cs3 suite ? I have not created a video with the cs3 suit as yet as
I not really too sure how to. It seems you have to use several products to achieve this ? Any help in getting my files playing on my site would be very grateful. If you need any further answers to some questins then please contact me

[David P]

First, what format of video? I've only tried with Flash .flv - but if so (and you let it do its stuff in full) you've got to upload (i) two corresponding .swf files and (ii) a javascript file of some sort. I seem to recall the prompts, or help file, explains this in full.

Tell me what format of video, if need be by PM, and I'll try to replicate it here...

[Glyn]

Have you defined the site?

Did you use put or synchronise in dreamweaver to upload to the server, or did you upload them out of the dreamweaver environment.

Sounds like your links use absolute rather than relative addressing.

Dreamweaver is a web site manager not a web page editor and it is easy to get in knots like this.

Glyn

[divebuddy]

I created the pages in dreamweaver over a year ago and these were ftp'd to the host. Its only been since I upgraded to cs3, changed details on all the pages and uploaded these, that I had the problems. Last night I took two files one was an mp3 format and the other avi. I've run these through the flash encoder and will then import and export these via flash. This should add the flash player script into the files created, and I hope will then play on the site when I have uploaded the files.

[David P]

Thanks for the further info. I still fear that if we're to help, you're going to need to sketch out in more detail what it is you're actually doing in the software (and/or trying to achieve), and check for us that things like links are correct on the web server, before we can unravel or try to replicate your problems!

[MartinS]

One small thing to check - i know when i moved from DW6 to 7, each SWF file that is embedded gets re-coded by DW and is loaded via a javscript file called AC_RunActiveContent.js, which is created and stored in a Scripts folder. I recently completely cleared out a remote website and re-synchronised it, and then couldn't figure out for the life of me why the Swish movies wasn't dispalying, and it was because it hadn't uploaded the js file. Did that manually and all was well.
The code for the loading of the JS is:

<script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

and you should find your SWF files are now called as follows:

<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','900','height','600','src','gallery','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','gallery' ); //end AC code
</script>
<noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...rsion=7,0,19,0" width="900" height="600">
  <param name="movie" value="your.swf">
  <param name="quality" value="high">
  <embed src="your.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="900" height="600"></embed>
  </object>
</noscript>

HTH
Martin

[David P]

Martin, yeah, that file is the chap I hinted at earlier. Personally I remove all the extraneous coding afterwards so it just loads the Flash movie, then it seems to be fine without the Javascript - but as I said, if you let it do its own thing, that's what it does!!