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hi;

when puplishing a movie.dcr

on the web

and if this movie containing an animation picture , it does not appear to the user

only the text and the other simple picture

why it happen . and how to solve it ??

this picture appear when do it

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Short summary and a practical path forward: the reason others saw only your local text/images is that the HTML you opened referenced files on your C: drive (file:///C:/...) instead of files on a web server. To make an interactive Director/ Shockwave movie available to other people you must publish from Director to Shockwave (.dcr) and upload both the generated HTML and the .dcr to a public web host (place them together in the host’s public folder and link to the HTML via an http(s) URL). This is the basic workflow used in many Director tutorials. (www3.cs.stonybrook.edu)

Example embed and a small checklist to fix your page: publish from Director (use Publish Settings → Shockwave) so Director creates an HTML wrapper plus the .dcr. Edit that HTML if it still points to a C: path and replace it with a relative path like movie.dcr. A minimal embed looks like this:

<object data="movie.dcr" type="application/x-director" width="640" height="480">
  Your browser needs Shockwave Player.
</object>

Make sure your host serves .dcr with the MIME type application/x-director (some hosts set this automatically, others let you add a MIME mapping). (oreilly.com)

Important compatibility note (today): Shockwave Player and the Director toolchain are discontinued and modern browsers have removed the old NPAPI plugin model, so many visitors won’t be able to run Director/Shockwave content even if you host it. Adobe retired Shockwave on April 9, 2019 and the web moved toward HTML5/Canvas and video for broad compatibility. For long-term access, capture the animation as video (MP4) or recreate it in HTML5/Canvas/Web animations — those formats work everywhere without legacy plugins. ()

Tiebacks to the thread: ’s frame approach is useful if you still author inside Director; was right about Xtras/players being required; and ’s hosting tip is the right direction. Quick troubleshooting: upload both files into the same folder, test with http://yourdomain/movie.html, check file permissions, and if users still can’t view it consider publishing a video fallback or rebuilding the animation in HTML5.

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Member Avatar for MidiMagic

You can't put one kind of movie file inside another kind of movie just by pasting it.

You are going to have to deconstruct the animated .gif file into its component images, and insert the proper number of copies of each individual image into the individual movie frames.

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plz , can you explain more
how to do it

its for micromedia director mx 2004

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:icon_surprised:

i do it
with using some information from the " Help " from the programe it self.


thanks


but , do u know how i can publish it on the web and every 1 can see
just like the online's game
which the user can play it online

when i do it recently , its only apear to me
this was the adrress aperared in the web :
c://Desktop/Multimmedia/................ .html
they are my folder , so the other will not be able to see it !!!

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The movie is a Shockwave movie. The movie requires shockwave player in system, which is perhaps installed in yours. Apart from that Shockwave movies requires certain extra things called Xtras for specific feature. They are more like plugins. In your case you have inserted Animated GIF, and to play that in Shockwave player you need that Xtra.

This Xtra called Animated GIF is part of Shockwave player. Reinstall Shockwave Player and try again. I dont know why is this happening. But Offline Shockwave Player installer comes as two packs(not sure if it is so now also). One in Full and other is compact. Maybe you have installed compact one.

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The movie is a Shockwave movie. The movie requires shockwave player in system, which is perhaps installed in yours. Apart from that Shockwave movies requires certain extra things called Xtras for specific feature. They are more like plugins. In your case you have inserted Animated GIF, and to play that in Shockwave player you need that Xtra.

This Xtra called Animated GIF is part of Shockwave player. Reinstall Shockwave Player and try again. I dont know why is this happening. But Offline Shockwave Player installer comes as two packs(not sure if it is so now also). One in Full and other is compact. Maybe you have installed compact one.

its solved now

the only remaining thing is how to upload my file on the web to let uesr see it online !!

Member Avatar for MidiMagic

Realize that the user will need the same player to see your page. Not everyone has it.

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Do you have a website where you can publish the file? If not, check into some common hosts, like www.godaddy.com, www.networksolutions.com, etc., or google "hosting".

~ mellamokb

oh ,realy its need this!!

is not there any other way other then this ?
i will try if not , to have one in Lycos

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Realize that the user will need the same player to see your page. Not everyone has it.

Here where the hourse is tied>>>i think its said like this

i mean , this waht i am searching and want to know more about it
if i publish my movie to .dir extention , then the one who does not have the program will not be able to see my movie.

so i need to publish in other way , and i choosed .swf "showckwave extention "
but does not know more about it

some members here say its possible to do it if i have my own site

i will try to do it

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do you know how to get free site from lycos ?

i go to their site but all the free have a note next to them with price per year or month ???


Any free site please to do this ????

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There are sevral. What services do you want from your service provider?? I mean you like nagging ads, or want PHP support etc....


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