DW CS4 Bug - Adobe denies it - LOL

[ShorePatrol]

I can't wait for someone else to confirm this...

If you have 5 minutes, open up DW CS4, open a blank page and use ASP with VBSCRIPT (this is Classic ASP)....save the page on a server that supports ASP. Do INSERT, MEDIA, FLV....now pick any ol' FLV file....

It inserts the FLV file, and of course you have to upload the dependant files (progessive player, skin file, etc)....

HOWEVER, your flv file WILL NOT PLAY IN ASP PAGES (especially with IE 8...or 7 for that matter)! If you do the same process with an HTM or HTML file, it plays fine. You'll notice a huge difference in the code that it inserts, depending on the file type (ASP or HTM).

Now, do it in CS3, and FLV files work fine on ASP pages, no matter the browser version.

I called Adobe to report this, and 1) the guy spoke such broken english I had to repeat myself about 5 times for him to understand, and 2) he insisted this was a Microsoft bug, and instructed me to call Microsoft Tech Support....

If this were a MS problem, it wouldn't work in CS3 either....the fact that it works in CS3, and not in CS4 indicates to me the inserted code is different, and has a flaw somewhere....

Does anyone have time to verify my findings? Please reply with your results....again, make sure to insert an FLV file into an ASP page....

Thanks for anyone's help....maybe if enough people verify this, Adobe will listen.

Thanks!

[David_Powers]

dstoltz007 wrote:

If this were a MS problem, it wouldn't work in CS3 either....the fact that it works in CS3, and not in CS4 indicates to me the inserted code is different, and has a flaw somewhere....

I don't use ASP, so I can't test the problem you report. However, I do know that the code for FLV insertion was changed between CS3 and CS4. I also know that changes were made so that it will work with ASP pages, because several people reported a bug during beta testing.

Take a look at the CS4 help page: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WSc78c5058ca073340dcda9110b1f693f21-7c9ea.html. It contains the following note:

Note:  Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) does not process nested object tags. For ASP pages, Dreamweaver uses nested object/embed code instead of nested object code when inserting SWF or FLV files.

The FLV help page was considerably updated recently with a lot of troubleshooting hints because many people had been experiencing problems with FLVs.

[ShorePatrol]

Thanks for the note - another developer I talk to says it's a bug in Adobe's swfobject_modified.js file...

Trust me when I say, Adobe's code does not work on ASP pages.

[smartin1212ds]

I confirm that this is a bug. I am struggling with the same issue. If it works in CS3 does anyone have the code to embed flv files in asp?

The code that I am using in CS4 is

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="232" height="130" id="FLVPlayer">

      <param name="quality" value="high">

      <param name="wmode" value="opaque">

      <param name="scale" value="noscale">

      <param name="salign" value="lt">

      <param name="FlashVars" value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=/video/darin_blackburn&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false" />

<embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" flashvars="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=/video/darin_blackburn&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false" quality="high" wmode="opaque" scale="noscale" width="240" height="135" name="FLVPlayer" salign="lt" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed>

    </object>