Which is the best route to go? The videos my friend gave me for his site were FLV. I converted them to swf and can get some of them to play using fire fox but not in IE.

Any help would be great

I used this piece of code for awhile:

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
        
<div id="flashcontent">
  This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
   var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "400", "200", "8", "#336699");
   so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

It also needs the swfobject.js located at: http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/#download

Simply download that and put it into your folders root. Then copy and past the code above, changing the bold options.

I use this for Flash (change the bold to suit your needs):

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="660" height="266" id="Doggie" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="Doggie2.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ac5d32" /><embed src="Doggie2.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ac5d32" width="660" height="266" name="Doggie" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

and this for Mov (again, change the bold to suit):

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
        codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"
        width="320" height="260">
           <param name="src" value="video/BYJazz1.mov" />
           <param name="autoplay" value="false" />
           <param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" />
           <param name="controller" value="true" />
           <!--[if !IE]> <-->
           <object data="video/BYJazz1.mov" width="320" height="260" type="video/quicktime">
             <param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" />
             <param name="autoplay" value="false" />
             <param name="controller" value="true" />
            </object>
           <!--> <![endif]-->
          </object>

You might want to read this stickie:
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/html-f...audio-web.html

swfObject is one of the easiest to implement and completely avoids that nasty <embed> tag. I've found DW's code to be a bit buggy.

Thanks a bunch! I used the swfObject script and it worked great on both IE and Firefox. The only trouble I'm having now is that at the end of the video the black screen remains there. What would be the easiest way to either make it white or add an image to replace it once the movie has finished playing?

The site in question is http://www.spinellimedia.com

Thanks

I imagine that's something you would have to do in Flash if you have the original file (it's my understanding you can't edit swf files).

I agree, the flash file would need to be edited to fix that looping problem.