Player not showing (white box) in FireFox

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Aug. 14, 2008pl!

Hi,

I created a local html site with the flashplayer and a custom skin I made. Everything looked perfect.

Then I had to move that whole site to a cocoon project. Althourgh it doesn't really matter, as the paths to the player and skin are still delivered correctly, I can't see the player in Firefox.
Internet Explorer shows it without any trouble, Firefox just shows a white box where the player is supposed to be displayed.

ALL paths inside the embed tag are correct, my skin isn't broken as the issue also occures on the "inverted" skin from your site, but when I delete the "skin" variable from the "flashvars" attribute, it works.

I have absolutely no idea what went wrong

Aug. 21, 2008temet

I have the same problem. Everything works perfectly in IE6 and 7 but nothing is loaded in FF.
Maybe the problem comes from swfobject.js (I use it to embed the player in the page).
The strange this is that in FF3 there is no problem.

Anyone?

Aug. 25, 2008pl!

I figured out that, in my case, the path to the skin has to be absolute. So I have to deliver a path like http://SERVER_IP/PATH/TO/SKIN. I can't explain it, but at least I see my player in FF now.

Aug. 25, 2008The Web Guy

Using the embedded js file and it all works in IE but not in Firefox or Opera. What could be wrong? I used full paths to the engine and the mp3 file and it acts like the js is not working...all I get on the page is "This text will be replaced"
Here is the code I used:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.fragilex.org/html/embed/swfobject.js"></script> <div id="player">This text will be replaced</div> <script type="text/javascript">var so = new SWFObject('http://www.fragilex.org/html/embed/player.swf','mpl','470','20','9');so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');so.addParam('flashvars','&duration=60&file=http://www.fragilex.org/assets/multimedia/072308web_small.mp3&title=Radio Interview&backcolor=009900&logo=http://www.fragilex.org/assets/images/greenlogoverytiny.gif&bufferlength=10');so.write('player');</script>

Aug. 25, 2008kLink

Do you have the Adobe Flash Player v9 in FF/Opera?

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

You should be using a more informative error message, like this:
<div id="player">
  <a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">Get the Adobe Flash Player to see this video.</a>
</div>



Aug. 26, 2008The Web Guy

That's the ticket!!! Thanks

Aug. 26, 2008kLink

@The Web Guy,

You're welcome. Good Luck!

Oct. 08, 2008Hilla

I have the same issue, just with some new modifications: My flash shows perfectly on the development site, but now that I'm moving it to the actual site I only see the white box. I have Flash Player 9 installed, and I use FF/Safari. I have double checked all paths (they're absolute), and everything is done exactly the same way as on the dev. site. Any ideas?

Oct. 08, 2008andersen

@Hilla - a link to your test page would make it less guesswork...

have you uploaded the player.swf and swfobject.js ?
do the various files show up if you try the various absolute urls in the browser addressline ?

Oct. 11, 2008TonyMK

I also have this problem. The video works fine in IE but when I run the page in FF I see the player for an instant and then it disappears. I've looked at all the previous threads but nothing suggested seems to help.

I using FireFox 2.0.0.17, Flash version 9.0.124.0

The page is at:

http://www.champex.info/champexactivities/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=16

The code I'm using is:

<div id="player">You require (url "http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" "Adobe Flash version 9 or above") to view this page</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('http://www.champex.info/champex/images/flash/player.swf','mpl','500','405','9');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('flashvars','&author=www.champex.info&description=Champex Lac Timelapse Aug 07 - July 08&duration=44&file=http://www.champex.info/champex/images/flash/champextimelapse0002.flv&skin=http://www.champex.info/champex/images/flash/snel.swf&image=http://www.champex.info/champex/images/flash/TimeLapseDefaultImage.jpg');
so.write('player');</script>

Andy advice gratefully received.

Mar. 06, 2009sajid

Hi
i've added the following html
<object id="player1" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9.0.115" width="320" height="240">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/>
<param name="movie" value="/longtail/lwll/player.swf"/>
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/>
<param name="flashvars" value="file=/longtail/lwll/priority1.flv&controlbar=bottom">
<embed src="/longtail/lwll/player.swf" width="300"height="195" bgcolor="undefined" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="captions=/longtail/lwll/priority1.flv&image=/longtail/lwll/p1.jpg&plugins=accessibility" />
</object>

Thi plays in IE. In firefox the black player shows up but nothing happend when I click on the play button.

can any one help.

Mar. 06, 2009lefTy

IE and the other browsers require different forms of the object element.

Search these forums for: "double-object"

Google for: "Google Code swfobject" There are good examples in the documentation for swfobject (you don't have to use swfobject, but it is a MUCH better way to embed Flash.

Sep. 09, 2009TMac

I have a new twist on the white box issue. I have created 2 identical sites that load different swf's. Both preview correctly and run fine in IE. One runs fine in FF, the other has a white box where the movie should be. These literally have the same code other than the site & swf names. They have identical scripts.

http://matthewweavercollection.com
http://custodialsolutions.com

Any ideas?

Sep. 09, 2009lost

 
I can't find a JW FLV Player on either page.

Nov. 05, 2009Joel

Does this have anything to do with ad-blockers installed in FF?

Nov. 06, 2009confused

Here's a weird one....I've used swfobject for years with no problem then recently a client said they couldn't see the flash movie on their website. (IE6)

Couldn't replicate that problem but whilst checking I found FF3 did not show the movie.....until I went directly to the movie itself via the url and t played. Then went back to the page and now it appears all the time.

FF better than IE? they're all the bloody same!

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