video transparent on Mac

[rororo]

Hello everyone,

Are there specific guidelines to creating FLVs for use on MACs? I have a site that mainly uses FLVs embedded in the files. The loading of the site starts and completes fine (it's 1 MB) and then the video is invisible, but i do see the mouse pointer change to a hand cursor when over a link - and it works.....

so basically, the video (which has no audio) is transparent on MACs and on PCs it looks fine.

Could it be a Alpha issue? the MCs are set to 99% alpha.

Any thoughts?
Thanks!

[cancerinform]

I have a site that mainly uses FLVs embedded in the files.

What do you mean by that?

There is usually no problem with macs and video except for an audio issue with quicktime.

[rororo]

hi...

well, i just found the solution.... the problem was that the flash player on the mac wasn't version 8 (or 9).... it was 7... so the video wasn't seen... buttons worked, but the video was as if i set the alpha to 0...

so that problem is solved... the question is now, what can i do in order to make usre that users have the correct version.... there is a checker that i'm aware of, but i believe that i read something that the auto updater doesn't work well on macs? or is that incorrect?

[armyvisual]

Your information is incorrect. It actually has absolutely nothing to do with any operating system, rather the internet browser they are using.

Yes there are tons of diffrent 'checker' scripts you can obtiain by searching on google. It is not true that auto updater does not work - again it generally depends on security settings based on the browser.

Our interactive studio is filled with macs for flash development So there is no problem with the mac!