well .. i have a problem in IE7 when loading FlowPlayer with the SWFObject. The page loads fine when you get to the page by clicking a link (home button for example), but if you refresh the page will load till the player loads and nothing after. On Firefox everything works fine but not in IE7 .. haven't tested it on IE6.
this is the link to the page i'm working on: http://domain1.preferredhomesonline.com
and this is the link to a flowplayer example which does the same thing if you refresh: http://flowplayer.org/demo/basic+setup
Sounds like the standard IE cache issue many people have run into. Do a search in the forum for IE refresh and you will find many existing entries. You can validiate that this is the issue by clearing your cache in between refreshes of the page (or just delete the FLV directly from your cache).
If the caching is the issue, then just do somthing like adding a random number on the end of your FLV content location to make it seeem unique to IE.
So instead of just : videoFile: 'pho_movie.php?fid=9'
make it: videoFile: videoFile: 'pho_movie.php?fid=9&r=' + new Date().getTime()
thanks for the tip, but i've placed that random number at the end of the swf file coz it wasn't working by placing it at the end of the pho_movie.php file.
Anyway .. annoying little thing this cache problem ... and from what i've tested, this happens only with flowplayer coz with the flash webcam recorder that i'm using everything works fine.
Hi again .. i might have rushed into saying it works now ... it only works a little better but not 100% .. and as i've noticed this is not related to SWFObject but with the flowplayer coz the problem persists even if i don't embed the player with SWFObject .. i'll try to find an answear on flowpayer page.