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Getting Macromedia Flash Movie to run in Websphere Portal 6.0 portlet

Been stuck with this issue for a about a week now.
Essentially it's a simple task, but Websphere Portal 6 says differently I'm trying to embed the following code: PLEASE REFER TO CODE SNIPPET

Inside the jsp file "test_file_exchange.jsp"

On the portal server a portlet is referencing that jsp, BUT when I view the portal, that particular PORTLET does not display anything (all I see is the portlet title bar and nothing else). BUT it gets even stranger I tried viewing the portlet in FIREFOX and it displays sporadically (if I make a minor change to the jsp file it stops displaying in FF, if I make another change and refresh it begins to display FF albeit randomly). I've googled for info on embedding Flash objects in a portlet in websphere portal and DISPLAYING it but surprisingly I can find almost no information what so ever on accomplishing this simple task for a portlet?

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"
width="20%" height="20%" id="CSI_Flash_ENG" align="middle">
      <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
      <param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
      <param name="movie" value="CSI_Flash_ENG.swf" /><param name="quality"
value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />    <embed
src="CSI_Flash_ENG.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="20%"
height="20%" name="CSI_Flash_ENG" align="middle"
allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
      </object>

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blue-genie

this helped somebody

http://groups.google.com/group/ibm.software.websphere.portal-server/tree/browse_frm/month/2006-02?_done=%2Fgroup%2Fibm.software.websphere.portal-server%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F2006-02%3F&

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If your .swf file is packaged inside the portlet, you need to encode the
URL the same way you would encode the URL to a .gif file for an IMG tag.

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Gopal2

Hi,

I too am facing a similar issue with my portlet JSP code. I get to see the picture, but cannot see the video controls. However, on the very first page down load, I can click on the lower left most corner and can listen to the audio, but not able to "see" the video. Not knowing what I am missing in this code snippet:
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<div>
      <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="496" height="407" id="moviePlayer">
            <param name="movie" value="/wps/themes/html/abc/flash/abc_moviePlayer.swf" />
            <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
            <param name="flashvars" value="movieURL=http://abc.cachefly.net/abc/abc-qPCR.mp4&posterIMG=/wps/themes/html/abc/images/abc-qPCR.jpg" />
            
            <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/wps/themes/html/abc/flash/abc_moviePlayer.swf" width="496" height="407">
                  <param name="flashvars" value="movieURL=http://abc.cachefly.net/abc/abc-qPCR.mp4&posterIMG=/wps/themes/html/abc/images/abc-qPCR.jpg" />
            
            <video controls="controls" width="496" height="368" poster="/wps/themes/html/abc/images/abc-qPCR.jpg" preload>
                         <source src="http://abc.cachefly.net/abc/abc-qPCR.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
                         <source src="http://abc.cachefly.net/abc/abc-qPCR.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
              </video>
            
            </object>
            
      </object>
</div>
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Can you point me to right direction please?

Thanks.