[FX.php List] [OFF] How to play Flash video on Mac OS X Server

[Bob Patin]

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply.

I'm using Mac OS X Server (Apache); I'm not seeing any errors, but the  
videos never start running.

On my laptop however, running the exact same index.htm page, in the  
exact same hierarchy that is on the web server, it displays and runs  
perfectly, so that tells me the folder structure is proper, and I  
would assume that all the components are there, right?

But when I go to the client's website and access the same page, which  
is stored with the exact same folder structure as what's on my laptop,  
the video never plays... It displays a default "loading..." message,  
but nothing ever happens...

Thanks for your help,

BP


On Mar 8, 2008, at 12:36 PM, biscuit technologies (gmail) wrote:

> It's just the first and most obvious thing to check.
>
> If everything is there and activity viewer doesn't give you any  
> errors and you're on running apache then maybe something got  
> uploaded weird or it's a very old server setup. If the server is IIS  
> and nothing else on the site uses flash or flv's, then most likely  
> you'll have to add the file types to IIS and restart the server  
> service.
>
> Since you didn't mention that the server is returning text in place  
> of streaming video I don't think it's the missing file type, but I  
> could be wrong.
>
> hope this helps,
> david
>
> On Mar 8, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Bob Patin wrote:
>
>> But if that were the case, it wouldn't run on my local laptop,  
>> would it?
>>
>>
>> On Mar 8, 2008, at 12:18 PM, biscuit technologies (gmail) wrote:
>>
>>> When you received the folder of flv's was there also a skin file,  
>>> something.swf, and a folder called Scripts? Check the activity  
>>> viewer in safari to see if all the associated files are being  
>>> found when loading the page from the server - I'd guess  
>>> something's missing.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 8, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Bob Patin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone have a hint on how to get this to work?
>>>>
>>>> I received a folder with a set of Flash videos that a client had  
>>>> on another server; when I click on the enclosed "index.htm" file,  
>>>> it runs in Safari on my Mac, but when I put it in their website  
>>>> (which is on Mac OS X Server Tiger), it never runs.
>>>>
>>>> i've double-checked to make sure I have the "swf" MIME type in  
>>>> the web server...
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be mucho appreciated...
>>>>
>>>> Bob Patin
>>>> Longterm Solutions
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