Validating JW Player Embed 4 Strict 1.0

[straightryder]

Is there a work around for fixing this...?

 

It returns errors... anyone else have this issue ?

[falkencreative]

What code are you using to embed it?

 

Realistically though, validation isn't everything. If it works in all browsers, your visitors will not care if the page validates or not. Embedding flash has always been tricky, and it's difficult/near impossible to get something that validates yet works consistently across all browsers.

[falkencreative]

A quick follow up... are you using SWFObject to embed the player? http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation. They offer a standards compliant way of embedding Flash content which I believe should validate.

[straightryder]

Hey FC,

 

I wanted to give the player a try and just quickly did and 'embeded code' that the site provides.

 

Returned 43 errors. lol

 

I haven't made attempt to use SWFObject yet. I'll give it a read through thou' and try it that way. I'll post back.

[straightryder]

<object classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' width='470' height='320' id='single1' name='single1'>

<param name='movie' value='http://player.longtailvideo.com/player4.6.swf'>

<param name='allowfullscreen' value='true'>

<param name='allowscriptaccess' value='always'>

<param name='wmode' value='transparent'>

<param name='flashvars' value='author=JayMoore&description=MPD&duration=3:52&file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qreu9IW-H1I&title=MPD&backcolor=666666&frontcolor=FFFFFF&lightcolor=000000&screencolor=CCCCCC'>

<embed

type='application/x-shockwave-flash'

id='single2'

name='single2'

src='http://player.longtailvideo.com/player4.6.swf'

width='470'

height='320'

bgcolor='undefined'

allowscriptaccess='always'

allowfullscreen='true'

wmode='transparent'

flashvars='author=JayMoore&description=MPD&duration=3:52&file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qreu9IW-H1I&title=MPD&backcolor=666666&frontcolor=FFFFFF&lightcolor=000000&screencolor=CCCCCC'

/>

</object>

[Wickham]

I show three methods here. The last (item 2) does validate but computers need to be flash-ready (Abobe Flash already installed) so it won't play on older computers but most new computers do have flash installed and some older computer users will have installed Flash.

http://www.wickham43.net/flashvideo.php

 

The classid method does usually work on all computers by downloading a plugin but won't validate.