CP9 and Embedded Video

[Gray Susan]

There is a project created in PowerPoint with embedded video (FLV) hosted on a shared drive.  When published as a SWF it plays but when it reaches a slide with a video a connection error message is received and the video doesn't play.  When it is published as a HTML5 the video does play but the quality is greatly reduced.  The video is in the same folder as the project is playing from.  Would it be better to recode the video in an MP4 format??

Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

[RodWard]

You mentioned the video is on a 'shared drive'.  I'm assuming you haven't yet looked into the possibility the Flash Global Security settings are blocking the video.  That would be my guess.

[Gray Susan]

I past this on the the person having the issue.  For some reason he thinks it has to do with the Codec he used.    Here was his response - When I published my 4th test, I chosethe “both” selection and published the .swf and html versions .In the SWFversion the video clips are rendered as FLV (flash video or Shock wave flash,same thing). This format video will not play on my computer in windows mediabut will play in Adobe Premiere and in Captivate. Whereas the html versionrendered .mp4 video which will play on my computer. So I think it may begetting obvious that this is the problem. I am going to figure out how to or ifI can publish in an .swf format project but embed .mp4 video clips instead. Thanks for your help. Susan Wright (Equilady) Remember, the mighty oak was just a nut that held its ground. http://www.equilady.com

[Lilybiri]

It is not on a shared drive in that case, doesn't matter for published files.

WIndows Media Player never played FLV videos, and output to SWF will for several reasons prefer FLV (has transparency, keeps better quality and is smaller).

Since this version I did see that publishing both to SWF and HTML, using the multiscreen.html file to launch the course, is having issues. I would recommend to publish separately to SWF and to HTML.

Replacing the FLV by mp4 in the SWF version will not be easy, but you could store the videos (mp4) on a webserver and open them as a web object.