Flash Movie doesn't show in IE

I have a flash movie on my site at the moment it is just a test movie, this works perfectly in firefox however it doesn't show in IE, i have tried playing with the settings but it is still the same, I think i have had this problem before and it was just a slight change of code, however i just can't seem to find it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Is this a new computer? perhaps a 64-bit system, with a 64-bit MSIE browser?

Flash does not work on new 64-bit systems. Adobe claims to be working on a compatible plugin, but I tried their beta release and that does not work.

Rather use Jquery systems. Flash is cumbersome and, many people believe, obsolete. Even Apple does not support it anymore on many of their hardware systems.

Hi It is new but i don't think it is a 64 bit system, plus it works in fire fox, or would that not make a difference, as i said i have had this problem a long time ago but just can not remember how to solve the issue.

With regards to Jquery i have used it on occasions for menus etc, but the flash is a video or animation sequences can this be achieved with jquery, as i say i am a bit of a newbie, thanks

I did forget to post the link last time.

http://79.170.43.200/pestcontrolonline.com/

I have firefox (32-bit) on my (crappy) Hewlett Packard Pavillion running Windows Vista 64-bit... so in Firefox I see the flash but not in MSIE, which is 64-bit.

Flash is ALSO reliant on using the correct CLASS of somthing called CAB, and the user's computer having a flash player installed that runs this CAB stuff and a whole lot of other techno-geek rubbish that I just can't be bothered with.

Basically... if the computer trying to view the flash file does not have appropriate configs, then the flash file will stall.

Perhaps there is someone who knows flash players well enough to explain all the CAB nonsense to you...

... and me :D

Thanks for that, i had no idea that not everything supported flash, i know not everybody has it installed, but it has certainly made me think about using it.

The installation of any "trinket" should be based on:

"Will having this feature increase sales, or not?"

If you cannot pragmatically answer this question in the affirmative, then don't bother installing the "trinket".

In my opinion, stuff like flash should ONLY be used when it enhances the customer's knowledge of a product, and supports them in making a purchase decision.

Some products benefit from a little "flash movie" that shows things like how to use it, configure it, or apply it in useful ways.

Self-assembled furniture is a good example. if I see a little movie showing me how easy it is to assemble a flat-pack bookshelf, I may be more tempted to buy it.

But having "trinkets" just for the sake of showing off to the competitor web-designer down the road is pointless, in my opinion. If a website component does not actively and measurably contribute to the sale of that product, then its inclusion is probably detrimental at worst, or superfluous at best.

I agree, personally i never use flash, for a number of reasons, but there are times when i think it does improve an experience like you said, and i don't agree with flash headers or menus i just can't see the benefit, but like now when i want to use it to demonstrate our companies products, though at the moment it's just playing anything whilst i develop the site, i think it is benefical, the problem is if some browsers do not display it, then there is no point in using it i guess.

Which version of MSIE are we talking about?

Did you use both <object> and <embed> tags to insert the flash movie into your code? Unfortunately that's the only surefire way to have it display on IE as well as other browsers... has to do with different interpretations of these tags or something. (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/415/tn_4150.html)

Also, are you viewing your page from localhost or is it on a remote server? MSIE sometimes causes problems with Flash in the former case but not the latter (I think - depending on your configuration)

This latter problem is commonly solved by a widespread script called "AC_RunActiveContent.js" - this exists online, but it's also automatically generated for you when you publish your Flash movie into an html page from Flash itself (at least as of CS3). So you could look into it and see if this solves your problem