FLV controls not showing in FLV Playback
A very quick post today but this might be helpful to fellow Flash’rs.
I couldn’t get the controls of FLVPlayback to show when uploaded on a live server.
After an hour or so of looking for the solution, i worked it out.
The skin / controls are published in its own .swf, that is quite straight forward.
What you need to do however, is place the MojaveExternallAll.swf ( in my case, but can be any skin ) in the same directory as the file producing the swf code. This was showreel.php found in the root directory. By simply moving your skin file in there ( the root directory), will solve the problem and the FLVPlayback controls will now show. This is because of the way SWF Object works. There is a method that you can edit the component file, but for the sake of one tiny .swf file in the wrong directory, i dont think its worth the hassle. I hope this is helpful, if anyone is having the same problem.
Comments
Thank you so much. You saved my life too….
I have been searching a lot. Thank you once again.
My Best Regards.
By Amit Tiwari on 1st July 2011You are number one! I didn´t think that it can help..
Tank you very much!
By Trian on 4th November 2011Thank you a million times! how the hell did you figure this out !?!
now i can go to sleep eventually…
Thanks!!!!
I was wracking my brain thinking of why the controls wouldn’t show up since I was placing them on the server the same way they were being published from flash. Needless to say I originally placed the swf, f4v and control swf file all in a separate video folder from the html files. Everything loaded except the swf control file!
This suggestion to put the control file with the html file worked perfectly to resolve the issue, thanks!
By sdwells on 5th December 2011
You saved my life with this one, thanks! I looked everywhere but nobody understood me…
By Chris on 31st January 2011