Flash Movies flv

[corypark]

I'm doing my buddys website http://www.hardthefilm.com (clips contain explicit material) and the flash videos are playing inconsistently across different computers. Can yall tell me what kind of problems you encounter and if you know of any reasons why the problems occur... for me (PC/WinXp) the credits work fine but the trailer plays about seven seconds and then stops (also the time scroller acts screwy)... for my buddy (mac/safari), the trailer works fine but the credits are jerky :confused::confused: no comprende

[punstc]

I'm on mac OSX 10.5.6 both movies played fine. I noticed though for the "trailer" that the scrub bar isn't working correctly and that after the stream/download is finished it doesn't display the total time of the clip it just says 00:00

How are you implementing the video player. Is it an external class? Or duplicated code on the timeline?

Also just as a note you might want to let people know that there is explicit material on the site just as a courtesy to others. Some people might be offended by it.

[corypark]

I'm on mac OSX 10.5.6 both movies played fine. I noticed though for the "trailer" that the scrub bar isn't working correctly and that after the stream/download is finished it doesn't display the total time of the clip it just says 00:00
But both movies are calling the same viewer, so somehow the file itself is freaking the player out, but there's not a whole lot of options when it comes to encoding an FLV:confused: I'm using Super© (http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html) (PC only) to encode the trailer.


How are you implementing the video player. Is it an external class? Or duplicated code on the timeline?
I'm using ShadowBox.js 2.0 (http://www.mjijackson.com/shadowbox/)
which appears to use java to set the styles. The link itself looks like this:
<a rel="shadowbox;width=640;height=368" title="HARD The Documentary" href="images/hardTrailer.flv" id="trailerLink" class="linky">
The ID and class are my things and dont have anything to do with shadowBox.


Also just as a note you might want to let people know that there is explicit material on the site just as a courtesy to others. Some people might be offended by it.
That's a really good point... thanks!

[punstc]

hmm..there might be an error with the encoding thats the only thing I can think of off the top of my head. I looked up the shadowbox and it plays quicktime as well. As a test I would save your files as quicktime movies and see if the same thing is happening. Other then that try re encoding the videos.

I'm assuming that you don't have flash or the flash video encoder? I'm not familiar with other flash encoders for the pc.