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linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by Daphne Gonzalvez - Friday, August 24, 2007, 7:33 PM

Linking to a Flash .swf file in Resources works fine. So does linking to an html page with a Flash .swf file embedded. The movie appears with its controls.

However, if I embed a Flash .swf file in a webpage created as a Resource in Moodle, I lose the controls for the movie. The console just does not appear and the movie autoplays.

I've copied various codes for this and none of them work.

Has anyone had this problem? I'd appreciate help.

Our Moodle version is 1.7

Thank you.

Re: linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by John Isner - Saturday, August 25, 2007, 4:06 AM

This might be bug MDL-9018, which was fixed in 1.7.2.

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Re: linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by Daphne Gonzalvez - Tuesday, August 28, 2007, 7:23 AM

Thanks John

Over the weekend we upgraded to Moodle 1.82 and now the .swf files won't work at all, not embedded, not as a direct link and not in an external web page! Any help is welcome.

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Re: linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by John Isner - Tuesday, August 28, 2007, 8:14 AM

Did you enable swf in the multimedia plugin settings?

Site administration -> modules -> filters -> Multimedia plugins -> Enable swf = yes

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Re: linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by Daphne Gonzalvez - Thursday, August 30, 2007, 4:17 AM

Yes, we did. The .swf files don't work!

Is this a bug?

We have Moodle version 1.8.2

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Re: linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by John Isner - Thursday, August 30, 2007, 5:07 AM

Check the links to the swf's. Are they correct? If you paste one of these links into your browser address bar, what happens?

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Re: linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by Daphne Gonzalvez - Thursday, August 30, 2007, 12:16 PM

Works fine. Movie plays. All controls showing.

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Re: linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by John Isner - Thursday, August 30, 2007, 10:14 PM

When you view the page source for one of these pages, do you see an embedded movie player (starts with an <object> tag)? If not, it would indicate that the media filter isn't working properly.

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Re: linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by Nathan Neale - Thursday, August 30, 2007, 11:22 PM

can't seem to view source code of the actual show as when I open it it opens full screen, might be because uploaded file is saved as .pps?

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Re: linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by John Isner - Friday, August 31, 2007, 9:31 PM

There is no multimedia plugin for pps. You must export it as swf.

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Re: linking a Flash .swf file in a web page Resource

by e phrases - Friday, August 31, 2007, 2:16 PM

I wonder if this issues is in any way related to the one I raised in my post yesterday - 'playing MP3 files from within uploaded htm webpages'. It seems to be the opposite in a way but both seem to involve the file somehow not connecting with the multimedia filter.
Perhaps someone who understands how it all works could connect the two problems?
Helen

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