I basically installed everything correctly except FFMPEG. I then configured a node type 'Video' and assigned the settings to work with it. I uploaded an existing FLV to the page and it worked. Sorta. In FF it's fine. In Safari 3 Beta it's fine. In IE7 the audio plays but the flash block itself is just white and no buttons work when you blindly click the areas where they should be.

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The AL commented

p.s. I manually embedded the player into my frontpage using straight HTML and it played fine in IE7. So it isn't the FLV or the player itself, it's gotta be how FlashVideo is embedding.

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The AL commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)
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foxmike commented

Does anyone have a solution for this..i've got the same problem.
firefox works great
ie7 shows a second of video...then a white screen
ie6 works sometimes on reload
i am pretty sure you are right have not been able to come up with a suitable fix

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foxmike commented

if i save the src of my page and open the file locally i can get the video to play fine in ie. it seems to be a timing issue of some sort in the creation of the page

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foxmike commented

ok
i fixed this by commenting out

// Fix for the "Click to interact with ActiveX control" message on IE
var objects = document.getElementsByTagName( 'object' );
// for ( var i = 0; i < objects.length; i++ ) {
// var obj = objects[ i ];
// var clone = obj.cloneNode( true );
// var parent = obj .parentNode;
// var sibling = obj .nextSibling;
// parent.removeChild( obj );
// parent.insertBefore( clone, sibling );
// clone.outerHTML = clone.outerHTML;
// }

in the flashvideo.js file

is this a reasonable fix?
seems to work fine but not sure what i may have broke in the process

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vm commented

It's a work around, I wouldn't call it a fix. Considering that little bit of .js was intended to thwart the extra click needed in IE to play a video by first enabling the flash.

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ms1 commented

Hi

I am facing the same issue. Actually the flash-player plays for once when I clear the cache in I.E. But after that even refreshing the page does not show the video.

Is there any concrete solution?

Does the 5.x-2.6-beta has resolved this issue?

Regards

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sferrero commented

The work around solves this issue for me, but you do now need to "Click to Activate" in IE7...

I do not see anything in the change logs for 2.6 or 2.7 that indicate a solution has been found for this issue yet.

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jaykimbo commented

I went nuts on this for a week. FF, Opera, Safari all worked, but IE6 and 7 didn't. I had to recreate the .js file and now up and running!!