Dreamweaver Video Problem

[Bagpuss66]

We have students trying to add a FLV video clip into a website page they have created using Dreamweaver. When they create an html page containing the video clip the space where the video clip should be is white and blank.

Could it be the GPO policy for I.E. blocking this video clip ? Their projects are in a shared projects file, maybe this is causing problems with them creating the Html page. We have tried it on our Admin Profile and the clip works. Its a real puzzle as the project they created worked last term! Any ideas?

[Steve21]

Are you using an older version of Dreamweaver? Mainly CS5~

 

We found it's just not working correctly with most modern browsers while importing Flash videos etc. Can literally do the same thing a dozen times and get different results on every machine/user even with the same policies/setups.

 

How each user sets up their own workspaces seems to affect this too, as some work on one machine with a local profile, but not on another they've used previously

 

Ended up changing FLVs over to MP4s etc as they're still seem to be working until we change over to a newer version

 

Steve

[Bagpuss66]

It's CS5 which would probably explain why it's not working. We will try using MP4's instead. Thank you.

[Steve21]

It seemed to be an issue with the way it's using the old Flash "plugins" it's using in it's import code, and never found a way around it, but would be interested to hear if anyone else did

 

Although the mp4 route isn't as fancy it seemed to be the only way to get constant imports to work, especially when linked to exams in our case.

 

Thanks,

Steve

[3s-gtech]

Tried doing it with the video tag and AVC mp4 file? This is the most widely supported html5 video standard, and should play natively in a modern browser (everything from IE11 and up really) without using Flash. That's what we use on our website when the video is self-hosted.

[Steve21]

It's the "standard" import option though, it's an FLV import menu that does the special whizzy bits behind it I've asked before about them doing code/tags and got told it isn't a coding lesson so they can't expect that in exams etc.

 

Steve

[3s-gtech]

It's like teaching any good practice then - the easy way isn't necessarily the right way (or is often just a bodge). If they want it to work, they need to do it the right way. If they do it the easy way, expect it to not work. There's not much more you can do - the software is old!

[Bagpuss66]

Yes it works, thank you