flash not playing.

[Aravona]

I'm working on migrating a site from an old site to a new one using a cms (wordpress) however the flash doesnt want to play.

The flash shows on the old site here (http://www.leisure-shop-online.com/test/) which as you can see shows the slideshow fine.

On the site I'm working on here (http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/) its not showing the files...

Warning: careful viewing that second link, it CRASHES Internet Explorer every time, but in FireFox it just shows a white box.

The flash is called on the page with:


<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="529" height="265">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/wp-content/themes/LSO_WPv0.1/banner_rotator.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/wp-content/themes/LSO_WPv0.1/banner_rotator.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="529" height="265" wmode="transparent"></embed>
</object>

But it just doesnt want to show the images and I'm not sure what to do... I have no access to a .fla only the .swf file.

Also the XML for the flash is as follows:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<slideshow>
<photo image="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/wp-content/themes/LSO_WPv0.1/flash_images/11.jpg" url="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/" duration="5"/>
<photo image="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/wp-content/themes/LSO_WPv0.1/flash_images/12.jpg" url="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/" duration="3"/>
<photo image="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/wp-content/themes/LSO_WPv0.1/flash_images/13.jpg" url="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/" duration="5"/>
<photo image="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/wp-content/themes/LSO_WPv0.1/flash_images/14.jpg" url="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/" duration="3"/>
<photo image="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/wp-content/themes/LSO_WPv0.1/flash_images/15.jpg" url="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/" duration="4"/>
<photo image="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/wp-content/themes/LSO_WPv0.1/flash_images/16.jpg" url="http://www.evolutionbusinessservices.co.uk/charlene/blog2/" duration="4"/>
</slideshow>

Any help would be awesome :)

Thanks!

Aravona

[bluewalrus]

Second link maxed out my cpu and crashed my ff 3.6.3.

[Aravona]

I'm on 3.6.6 and it shows the flash as a blank box, latest FF said something about no longer letting flash crash the browser.

As good as it is to know it crashed you, its not much help to my overall problem.

[bluewalrus]

It's a sign of an unstable page at the least. It shouldn't crash any browsers, let alone only working on the most upto date version.

You should either post all your code and I or someone else will look at it or recode the page.

As is I don't think you can get much help when the page can't be viewed. Additionally I don't think many people are going to want to try to help knowing their browser/ computer may crash.

[Aravona]

The problem is with the flash only... if i take it out it doesnt crash. Simple.


The thing with firefox was a bug they actually fixed where messed up flash would crash the browser.

I dont need anyone to recode the page, the page has no problems with it. I have a degree in web design and php coding... what I know little about is Flash.


The problem is with the flash file, how its embedded, or how its drawing the images.

If I call it in an Iframe it works fine by looks a mess - Wordpress seems to have a monumental issue with flash - as far as I've noticed the problem is ONLY with xml driven flash. Which this, annoyingly, must be.

So can you see anything wrong with how that flash is embedded or the xml file? If not I'll go elsewhere where people know more.