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

[biscuit technologies (gmail)]

If you'd like to send me the link back channel I'd be happy to take a  
look.

- David


On Mar 8, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Bob Patin wrote:

> 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
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