I’m posting this hoping that if someone else is Googling* this issue, I’ll make it a little easier to find.
While developing a redesign for a client, we started implementing a flash-based slideshow in the top corner of their home page, with the ability to play an FLV file over the slideshow. Eric did a fine job making the SWF, and the transitions worked quite well.
One little problem: as soon as we uploaded our flash to the server and attempted to play it, it would not load the video. We thought it was a permissions problem because it’s a development website and is password protected until it goes live in order to serve the privacy concerns of the client. So I fumbled around with that for a bit with no results.
I finally decided to try Google. After a couple misses, I finally found the solution to my FLV file problem. The steps in this document worked for me. Turns out you need to set the FLV MIME type on your Windows 2003 server, and restart the World Wide Web Publishing Service.
We don’t have the option of just restarting our IIS service willy nilly, so I had one of our techs schedule a task on the server to restart the service at 2:30 this morning. When I came in and loaded the client’s site, it worked like a charm!
* Googling is not in the OS X dictionary! I added it.
July 20, 2008
K-lite codec pack….
Xvid codec. Codec fixer. Gspot codec. Wmp wmv codec download. Video codec download….