I have Flash 8 Pro. ...I have Flash 8 Pro. When I try to open the source player.fla I get an error message "Unexpected file format." What's going on?
Can't open flash source "Unexpected file format."
Posted: Wed, 2008-12-03 14:55
dazz
Posted: Thu, 2009-01-08 20:20
Jim
I am getting the same error, I have CS4 anyone else got the problem?
i downloaded the source and it says the player is 11k, thats the FLA and the SWF but if you just download the player from the site the SWFis 42 K
Something is not right??
Thoughts?
Posted: Mon, 2009-01-12 09:43
Steve
Me too.
Posted: Thu, 2009-01-22 10:59
Brad
Here is a fix for this in Firefox (not sure how IE handles it), When you go to download the fla from the site - http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/browser/tags/ you see the list of media players, click the player version you want, you now should see the fla for that player. Don't save it from that list. If you right click to save this file form this screen you will only download a 10kb file. Instead left click the fla you want, the site will tell you: "HTML preview not available, since the file size exceeds 262144 bytes. Try downloading the file instead". Click the word "download" to download the file. Now you will download the whole fla file and it will open in flash. :-) Enjoy
Posted: Tue, 2009-02-24 19:39
Tom
Brad,
I've just tried doing what you said... but I still get "Unexpected File Format"??? :(
Posted: Thu, 2009-02-26 14:11
nasal
I get "The docfile has been corrupted" when I try to open the .fla with Flash CS4. What's this?
Posted: Wed, 2009-04-01 14:34
susanhita
I'm also getting the "The docfile has been corrupted" when I try to open .fla with flash8
Posted: Wed, 2009-04-01 18:58
lefTy
The player source code is CS3.
Posted: Thu, 2009-05-14 02:11
kaushek
i have another problem .first my flash software open and he give me option chose the file format (example one option i am look those time --user default----)one day i am select don't display again .it is my very big mistake . but its need now very much . So anybody know how to come back this option please told me .
Posted: Fri, 2009-11-20 00:07
Jinbo
I have the same error, I am using flash cs3, could anyone help?
Posted: Mon, 2010-04-12 05:00
Daur
get ur flash versions down to 8 or even 6...
Posted: Tue, 2010-09-07 11:18
re
I have CS4. When I try to open the source player.fla in CS3 "i get the same error " it says :"unexpected file" how can i fix it?
Posted: Tue, 2010-09-07 13:56
Ethan LongTail
@re - which version of the player.fla did you try to open with CS4?
Posted: Fri, 2010-09-24 19:09
hannah
i keep getting it on cs5 and i worked so HARD on that flash! about 300 frames wasted!
Posted: Sat, 2010-09-25 20:55
Ethan LongTail
@hannah - Can you please clarify what you mean?
ok I see after a google search that it could be because this is a CS3 version...