FLV's play fine in IE, but not Firefox, Safari or Opera -Why?!

[WCO]

Hi I really hope someone can help on this... been tearing my hair out for months!!

I've made a series of trailers available on my site (www.WorldCinemaOnline.com), and encoded them using flash video.

The issue is that i'm having problems getting these trailers to work in any other browser apart from Internet Explorer... A typical example of where the problem can be found is at: http://www.worldcinemaonline.com/fil...-Le-Monde.html

In Internet Explorer, when you press 'play' the video player fades in, begins buffering, and starts to play back as expected.

In every other browser I have tried, however, (Safari, Opera & Firefox) the video player fades in, looks like it's about to buffer - and then nothing happens.

Am I missing something really obvious here that causes the player, or my code to be incompatible with other browsers?

The source is:
<td xxx background="http://www.worldcinemaonline.com/images/items/media/0/world-cinema-online-Feature-ClubLeMonde_19.jpg"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="" id="clip_player" width=320 height=240>
<param name=movie value="/images/sets/moviebear/swf/php.swf">

<param name=quality value="high">
<param name=wmode value="transparent">
<param name="FlashVars" value="&section=http://www.worldcinemaonline.com/media/trailer/club_le_monde_trailer.flv">

<embed swliveconnect="true" id="clip_player" wmode="transparent"
src="/images/sets/moviebear/swf/php.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#000000
width=320 height=240 flashvars="http://www.worldcinemaonline.com/media/trailer/club_le_monde_trailer.flv" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
</embed>

If anyone can help it'd be very much appreciated & there's a good few free films in there if someone manages to come up with the answer. )

Thanks!
Pierre

[schizo]

Hello Pierre, today is your lucky day.

If you ever have flash problems specific to non-IE browsers such as FireFox... you might want to take a closer look into your embed tag. In this case, you just forgot to add "&section=" to the flashvars parameter of this tag. This updated code should fix your problem:

<embed swliveconnect="true" id="clip_player" wmode="transparent"
src="/images/sets/moviebear/swf/php.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#000000
width=320 height=240 flashvars="&section=http://www.worldcinemaonline.com/media/trailer/club_le_monde_trailer.flv" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
</embed>

Rest well my friend.

[WCO]

Schizo you absolute legend!! Thank you so much for the solution - tested it and it all works fine (or it will do just as soon as I get round to performing a full update on the site).

Not sure what your taste in films is like but ping me an email to frenchmonkey"at"hotmail.com with an idea of the sort of stuff you're into and i'll give you a load of free stuff to keep you entertained whilst you're not out saving the world from flash-related evils.

Cheers! :) :D :p

P.