JW Flash Player not Playing on FireFox 3 Station

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Feb. 16, 2009Douglas Pruiett

I have a page that plays mp3 files with an embedded JW Flash Player. The mp3 files play as a result of a call to a javascript function that does a sendEvent call. The page works on my work station with both IE7 and FireFox3. I just tried it on another (older) station and it works fine on IE7, but it does not play in FireFox 3. Another page that plays a video using the JW WMV Player played fine after installing the Silverlight plugin. Anyhow, what might I need to do to FireFox to get the JW Flash Player to play my mp3 files? Is there a plugin, etc.?

Also, do you have any articles about what is needed in the various browsers (plugins, etc.) to use the various players you have? Thanks for the help.

Feb. 16, 2009lefTy

Using the FF that doesn't work, go to this page, which is the Adobe Flash Player version check:

      http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507

If you don't have at least 9,0,124,0 installed, then upgrade the Adobe Flash Player from the link on that page. It will also test the installation after it is installed.

Publisher Tutorials are linked from the menu bar at the top of this page.

Developer Tutorials are in the Wiki which is also linked from the menu bar at the top of this page.

Feb. 17, 2009Douglas Pruiett

lefTy:

Right now I have a page that uses the JW WMV PLayer and a page that uses the JW Flash Player. One requires that Silverlight be installed and the other that Adobe Flash Player be installed (I presume from your comments). Logic tells me that it would be best to use just one player on the site, thus users are not required to have two things installed, but only one.

I am inclined to just use the WMV player as it plays WMVs and MP3s, which satisfies my current needs. Moreover, the WMV player includes a silverlight.js file that checkes to see if the Silverlight player is installed and displays a more attractive Silverlight icon prompting for install if not. The JW Flash Player on the other hand does not seem to have a nice graphical way to notify the user of the need to install Adobe Flash Player. What you gave me was hyperlink text, which I have not yet figured out how to implement. What are your thoughts? Is there a js file that could do the same thing as Silverlight.js does for the JW WMV Player?

Feb. 17, 2009lefTy

You can use the official Adobe Flash icon and/or ExpressInstall from Adobe if you want fancy icons, etc. Details at Google "ExpressInstall"

ExpressInstall is supported by swfobject, details at Google "Google Code swfobject"

Or you can always make your own image.

Oct. 28, 2009hassan

test is best

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