Hello,

I have spent days trying to figure this one out and I can't.

I have a swf file that loads a FLV file using the standard flash 8 player FLVPlayback. It is an intro movie so I am not using any controls for this FLV.

What my swf does it display a 5,4,3,2,1, coutdown and then on the last frame I have the FLVPlayback autostart my FLV file.

When I use the standard code to generated by Flash 8 to embedd the swf it works great but I have to activate it.

If I change nothing and use SWFObject or UFO my swf will just loop continuously and never play the FLV file.

The code I am using is for SWFObject is:

<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
var so = new SWFObject("skip.swf", "skip", "550", "400", "9", "#000000");

so.addVariable("flashVarText", "this is passed in via FlashVars for example only"); // this line is optional, but this example uses the variable and displays this text inside the flash movie

so.addParam("wmode", "opaque");
so.write("flashcontent");
// ]]>
</script>


With the proper UFO code I get the same results.

All my files are in the same directory, the FLVPlayvack paramater contentPath in the swf is Webvideo13.flv

I have seen alot of examples of people defining their FLV file like:

<script type="text/javascript">
var s1 = new SWFObject("skip.swf","single","550","400","7");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addVariable("file","Webvideo13.flv");
s1.addVariable("image","preview.jpg");
s1.write("player1");
</script>

But that doesnt work for me. My swf just will loop forever. No error messages of any kind it just loops. Do I need to import that s1 varaible into my FLVPlayback component somehow??

Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Thanks for the reply,

The standard Flash 8 <object / embed> at http://members.cox.net/caelestis/flash8.html

The code:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="330" height="350" id="skip" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="skip.swf" /><param name="loop" value="false" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="skip.swf" loop="false" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="330" height="350" name="skip" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

Below are my two pages that just loop the swf file using SWFObject and UFO.

I have tried this on my cox webspace, a godaddy windows and linux plan, and a windows 1stchoicehosting plan, and all 4 different platforms give me the same results on the files.

http://members.cox.net/caelestis/swfobject.html
http://members.cox.net/caelestis/ufo.html

I also included my skip.fla file at http://members.cox.net/caelestis/skip.fla

Maybe something is wrong in my FLVPlayback paramaters?

Thanks for any help you can offer!