Flash Video Wont Play on WP site in IE 9, but fine in Chrome/Firefox

  • Resolved RachelinBranson

    (@rachelinbranson)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    I am working on a wordpress website to make some changes and one major issue is that the Flash video will not load in Internet Explorer 9, but works fine in Chrome and Firefox. It just shows the blank background image and if you right click, says “movie not loaded” . I have version 11.7.7 of adobe flash..

    Is there a special code I can put in to fix this problem for ie 9?

    Below is the code that I have now for the flash to work…

    <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="936" height="176">
                      <param name="movie" value="images/banner.swf" />
                      <param name="quality" value="high" />
                      <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
                      <embed src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/images/banner.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="https://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="936" height="176" wmode="transparent"></embed>
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  • Can you link to your site?

    Thread Starter RachelinBranson

    (@rachelinbranson)

    https://www.toepull.com/ and use Internet Explorer to see problem… Flash banner should be playing in the orange box

    There are a lot of markup errors while validating your site. Incidentally a good number of them are related to Flash video. Make corrections so that the problem may be solved as IE is highly sensitive to such errors.
    BTW, is what you posted above the complete code?

    Thread Starter RachelinBranson

    (@rachelinbranson)

    Yes, for the video portion. Do you think I need to inlcude the script files in this post too? I am no Flash expert at all and so I am very lost here.. Is the file path correct? Maybe IE just can’t find the file.

    Do you think I need to inlcude the script files in this post too?

    No.

    Just go through the validation report I posted above. You can see the number of errors related to the Flash script. They are causing the problem with IE. Though not sure, you may temporarily revert to Twenty Twelve theme and see if it helps.

    Thread Starter RachelinBranson

    (@rachelinbranson)

    Thread Starter RachelinBranson

    (@rachelinbranson)

    Got it! Object doesn’t work , <embed> works in ie, chrome, and firefox… Here is a sample of the code, just in case someone runs into this problem…

    <embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”images/banner.swf” wmode=”transparent” allowfullscreen=”true” flashvars=”intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=564da38fcc&photo_id=2454294841″ width=”936″ height=”176″ “></embed>

    Your HTML code is full of errors – have you corrected those? IE hates invalid code.

    You might also want to get rid of the table altogether – they’re not considered good coding practice for layout.

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