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January 19, 2017
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MP4 videos don't play when SWF copied to network

  • January 19, 2017
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Hello,

I have created a self-paced course that needs to be published as a SWF file so it can be moved to a network drive, have its path copy/pasted into PowerPoint, wrapped in Articulate and then uploaded to PeopleSoft. I didn't design this process, just following instructions from our LMS coordinator.

The course has some MP4 videos and those have all been added and configured appropriately. I'm publishing as SWF, accessibility disabled in preferences. When I launch the html file from my C drive to proof it, works great! Along with the slides that have right-click configurations.

Problem is when I move the published files to the network drive. When I launch html from there, the videos don't display and the right-click configurations are lost. One of the help files I found here online says it needs to be copied to a "trusted path." I'm trying to understand what is considered trusted, where I can identify what is a trusted path and get this thing that I've spent all of last year on to work.

We want the videos to play (obviously) and I'd prefer to keep the right-click in there as true right-click and not tell the user "in the real world you would right-click but because of something goofy here you have to left-click."

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

Leslie

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    Justenuf2bdangerous
    Inspiring
    January 19, 2017

    Best, simplest explanation I've seen  is Setting up Flash Global Security for Captivate

    Rod Ward at Infosemantics is one of the good ones on these sites.

     

    Inspiring
    January 19, 2017

    "published as a SWF file so it can be moved to a network drive, have its path copy/pasted into PowerPoint, wrapped in Articulate and then uploaded to PeopleSoft."

    Wow..there are so many opportunities for pointing errors here.  Hopefully the "Flash Global Security" Preference will help. I would ask your LMS administrator if this process has worked with embedded Captivate videos in the past?

    Cheers

    Steve

    a05lreyAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    January 19, 2017

    Thats awesome.

    I didn't want to say it before, but I can't imagine why any organization would create a course in Captivate and then embed it into a PowerPoint and then render it out in Articulate.

    That is like buying a Porshe, loading it in a big van and then towing it behind a city bus to get where you want to go.

    Best of luck on the new gig

    Cheers

    Steve 


    That's an awesome analogy, Steve! Thanks for the chuckle!