Embedding Flash Player
by Rebecca Cooper
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Jun 30, 2008 at 2:13:16 pm
To use Jeronwijering's Flash player as a standalone embedded MP3 Player or FLV player with a ONE file, what are the step by step instructions in easy terms. We have downloaded the file zip titled 3-16 from download.com.
The link to the wizard is http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?page=wizard That tells you basically how to do it, but I can't figure out exactly what I need in all of the blanks for it to work. I can get the box to show up, but I can't make the file play.
How do we get all of this to work on the webpage using Dreamweaver 8.0. By the way, thanks for telling how to overlap layers and resize them. Works perfect!
Re: Embedding Flash Player by Abraham Chaffin on Jun 30, 2008 at 4:20:23 pm
You should be able to fill out the basics and then copy and paste the code into the code of your page. By default Height Width and File should be all you need to change. Post a link to the page where you're having trouble and I'll take a look.
I have an embedded YouTube player in there right now but I don't want to keep it there forever because the sound is mono - not stereo.
For the flv player to work, in the wizard where it says "file" - what type of format does that need to be? I think that's where I'm having trouble. I put the file on my remote side and local side, and tried getting to it that way, but it still doesn't find it. When you first get to that wizard page it has /upload/player.flv in the file name. What do I need to type in there to for it to find my file from my remote site? I'm guessing the source needs to stay the same because that's where it finds the player.
Re: Embedding Flash Player by Abraham Chaffin on Jun 30, 2008 at 4:51:16 pm
Yes - you put that URL into the file field in the wizard form, click on update code and then copy the code and paste it into the code of your page where you want the movie to show up.
Re: Embedding Flash Player by Rebecca Cooper on Jul 1, 2008 at 12:25:52 am
Well now that I'm home I've put the file in the images folder on my site. I decided to use the single mp3 instead of the flv, but it should still work the same. I have an mp3 file in the images folder so I put the directory to it in the file spot. When I updated it and they have the sample player above the code at the bottom, it played there. When I copied the code I pasted it into a new layer on my demo page. I used the split view and put it in between the code where it should show up in the box. All that showed up, though, was text. It didn't make a player - it showed the text code in black. Can you see anything wrong with their code, or what am I doing wrong? Again, I apologize for being blonde... :)
~* Becka *~
*edit*
I redownloaded the flv player from the main site. Looking in all of the folders that came with it there are a lot of files - do I need to add those anywhere? What are they for? If he gives me a link to the setup wizard in the readme, why are those files there?
Re: Embedding Flash Player by Rebecca Cooper on Jul 1, 2008 at 2:23:39 am
And now I've messed this up even more. If you go to my page now, the samples (demo) page isn't even working. It's trying to reference itself into the public_html folder then the images folder instead of just the images folder. I was trying just to take everything off until I got this working, but when I reloaded in the image it asked me something about referencing to the public file and I guess I said "yes". Is there a way to fix that? I even recreated another page and drug my .jpg file into the blank page and it still referenced that public_html file. I don't know how to get anything to show up on that link now - and now I'm afraid that I won't be able to ever update a page on the site again without it messing up. Is there a way to unreference that folder?
Thanks in advance for all of your help... You're a lifesaver!
Re: Embedding Flash Player by Rebecca Cooper on Jul 2, 2008 at 1:56:23 am
I am going to be working on it more tonight - I had a looooong day at work and am just now getting to it. I'll post a link in the morning to see if we can get this working.
