How to insert Flash in Joomla

I uploaded the plugin but did not work becuase it is for older version of Joomla, mine is 1.5

How exactly I can use html to embed swf files?

Thanks for responding.
DP

There is two plugins, one for 1.0 and one for 1.5.
For embed using html, don't forget to deactivate your editor first.

<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="somefilename.swf">
<embed src="somefilename.swf" width="550" height="400">
</embed>
</object>

For more information, take a look at:
http://www.w3schools.com/flash/flash_inhtml.asp

I Hope it helps
Luis C. Fernandes

I will try it out.
Where shoud I keep my .swf file in my website?  Can it be any folder and how do I give a path to it?

Thanks for helping me out.

Maybe you could try by your self, you will understand a little more what you are doing.

If you want to earn some time, create a flash directory in your joomla root. copy your files to this directory and use following:

value="flash/somefilename.swf">
src="flash/somefilename.swf"

This is really frustrating.

When I put the code in HTML code using TinyMCE editor, it cleans up the code.  I also went into the tinymce.php file to inactivate code cleanup, it is still cleaning the code.

I also downloaded Allvideos plugin, dont know how to use it.

Any ideas that I can try?

When I use Film Strip icon to enter the url ( http://www.frozen-flavors.com/pawar/flash/M2U00453.swf ) it gives following error.

Error #2044: Unhandled skinError:. text=[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2035: URL Not Found. URL: SkinOverAll.swf"]


However, I have the SkinOverAll.swf in the same folder.

Please help.

I told you, deactivate firts your editor.

Global Configuration-> Default WYSIWYG Editor -> No editor

After that your code will not be modified.

I know it's more pratical using an editor, but you could write your article and only at the end deactivate editor and put your embeded code. If it's to much work, try to download a plugin that allows you to insert html or swf in your articles.

In your case, the relative path is: flash/M2U00453.swf

<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="flash/M2U00453.swf">
<embed src="flash/M2U00453.swf" width="550" height="400">
</embed>
</object>

A last thing, I recommend : don't hack any component modifying source code.

Great it worked,
However I am getting following error

Error #2044: Unhandled skinError:. text=[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2035: URL Not Found. URL: SkinOverAll.swf"]

What should I do?

please tell me the url where this error is showed

Here is the URL

http://www.frozen-flavors.com/pawar/

Two videos you see are from YouTube, they are fine,
The other one that is hosted from website is where I get the error message.  

I don't see any error???

The best you can do is encode your video in FLV ! SWF is used for interactive animations not video.

In that case you could use allvideo plugin that is great and work correctly.

http://www.joomlaworks.gr/content/view/16/42/

This is the simpliest thing you can do to solve your problems.

If you still want to include flash files in your content, you can also use the following editor: http://jxtended.com/products/wysiwyg-editor.html

It has a button to include a flash file. Install the editor, activate the plugin, and change your editor:
Global Configuration-> Default WYSIWYG Editor -> Editor - WYSIWIG

Thanks.
How do I encode video in flv?

There's lots of software available to encode video files in a different format.

This one's open source: http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
This one's also free: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Thanks,

What I am trying to say is: Should I save file in .flv extension? and upload to the web as .flv file?

I have adobe flash professional program.

If you want to use the Allvideos plugin (http://www.joomlaworks.gr/content/view/16/42/), then you would need an .flv file.