Embed Flash into Product Page

[floorcleaners.net]

I received some video files from a company of ours and they are all flash videos to embed in our website on product pages.
Each Video foler contains 5 files. Each Video folder contains:
!Play_Video - HTML Document
Flash - JScript Script File
Video - Flash Video File
Controls - Shockwave Flash Object
player - Shockwave Flash Object

My question is, I tried the Flash icon on the Wizzy Wig to embed the video into my product page but every time I try to upload the video (Flash Video File) it will upload to where the status bar says complete, but when I go into the server their is nothing uploaded.

Is their an easier way to embed a flash video into a a product page? Is their HTML I can put in along with a URL (although I don't know how to get the URL now that I cannot upload the file to flash server section, i can only upload pictures to my image section)?

I'm able to take HTML from YouTube and embed it obviously, but I want these specific videos to play on certain pages.

If anyone can help me out with this i'd greatly appreciate it. If you need more information let me know.

When I click on the Video (Flash Video File) The video doesn't play, but when I click on !Play_Video (HTML Document) the video plays and opens. Do I need to request different video files from the company?

Thanks,

P

[mazhar]

Upload flash files to your website via some FTP tool, once you are done with this and have valid flash file URLs you can then put following HTML on product page to embed flash.

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<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="somefilename.swf">
<embed src="somefilename.swf" width="550" height="400">
</embed>
</object>

Where you need to adjust src="somefilename.swf" to point to your actual file. For example
src="http://yourdomain/flashfiles/somefilename.swf"

[floorcleaners.net]

Thanks,...

Usually when I use that code using the company's website URL where it is on their website, it only gives me sound. The problem is, When I upload my flash file .flv i believe, to my server on able commerce through the upload flash icon on the wizy wig, it takes a while to upload, then says completed sometimes, or will just stay there and say its uploading and not change. But when it does say done uploading those few times, i go back in there under flash section and nothing is there. So it won't upload for some reason.

Any other easier way to host it and get a url that way then use your code?

Thanks again.

[mazhar]

You can ask your host about this problem, it may be due to some permission problem at your domain or may be you are uploading files some where else and checking them at some other location.

[missylhale]

Has anyone had a problem with IIS and flv files? I have added all the MIME types, .net says you need a FLVStreaming.cs page in your App_Code folder, embed the swf (that contains the fla movie) file in an object, and I still just cannot get it to play or even show anything. Just shows the "Movie not loaded" grayed our on a right click on the movie. Anyone else have this problem?

[igavemybest]

Use this: http://www.flash-control.net/ It's worth the money and what I use.

[missylhale]

I have figured out my problem. It is all in the IIS settings. We are running IIS6. you have to have the mime types set up as .flv mime type: video/x-flv and .swf type: application/x-shockwave-flash, but that wasn't enough. Also I had to make sure there wasn't any of those two types of application extensions in the application configuration. Once I removed those 2 from Application Settings/Application configuration the swf's started playing.