Flash movie not showing up in IE8 on my PC. Can someone take a look?

Question

I have a flash movie on a login page that shows up fine in every browser apart from IE8 (surprise surprise!), where I just see a red cross in a square. You can see what I mean if you look at the page in IE:

http://monthlymixup.com/index.php

Here is the relevant code:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="mixup.swf" width="800" height="445">
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>

The movie was created in Flash 10 with ActionScript 3. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why it is isn't working in IE?

Thanks,

Nick

Solution 1

I did some more googling around and found out that I needed to enter the code as follows:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="mixup.swf" width="800" height="445"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="movie" value="mixup.swf">

For the flicker at the start of the flash movie, where the frame could be seen before the movie started, I needed to preload the flash movie.

Solution 2

Quoted from: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/415/tn_4150.html

To ensure that the most browsers will play your Flash Player movies, you should place the EMBED tag nested within the OBJECT tag as shown in the above example. ActiveX-enabled browsers will "ignore" the EMBED tag inside the OBJECT tag. Netscape and Microsoft browsers using the Flash Plugin will not recognize the OBJECT tag and will read only the EMBED tag.

Here's a quick example:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="mixup.swf" width="800" height="445">
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
    <embed href="mixup.swf" quality=high width="800" height="445" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>
</object>

Put that on your page and see how it works. You may need to tweak styles a little.

Comments

[Nick]

Thanks. In fact, I did some more googling around and found out that I needed to enter the code as follows: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="mixup.swf" width="800" height="445"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="movie" value="mixup.swf"> this now shows up in IE, whereas when I tried your example, nothing showed up still. I am still seeing a flash of the frame of the movie and the login boxes before the movie loads. Do you know why this is happening? </object>` If you use IE you can see what I mean here: [link] (monthlymixup.com)

[Unsigned]

I will have to switch to my Windows machine to test this further. I'll get back to you.