ERROR: Could not load the file 'presentation_content/data.swf'

Jan 22, 2014

When I try to open the Shockwave Flash Object I get the following error message: ERROR: Could not load the file 'presentation_content/data.swf' - Using PowerPoint 2013 and Studio Pro 13. Windows 7 machine. If I open with: Internet Explorer it shows. Any suggestions - Have training for new nursesthis month - Thanks, ROB

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Praveen Tyagi

Hello,

I am trying to make Presenter-13 create SWF files, and embed them in Moodle, for creating an elearning course module. 

But Presenter-13 publishes SWF files in a more cryptic format than Presenter-09 (this just used to create slide1.SWF, slide2.SWF etc). There is

- Presenter.html (at this level there is a Presenter.SWF file also)

- presentation_content/ (in this is data.SWF)

Now, if I embed Presenter.SWF in Moodle, and preview the lesson, it shows this error: Could not load the file 'presentation_content/data.swf. If I embed data.SWF, then the preview just shows a blank

My question is, how do I use the SWF generated by Presenter-13 for use in Moodle-2.6

Tony Passwater

I hope someone will be able to give me a solution to an issue I am having with Presenter 13 ...

I have searched at least 50 posts on this and tried countless suggestions, and none work ...

I should have posted this within 5 minutes of the issue occurring last night at 11:00pm, and not be dead set that I can figure it out and worked all night with no solution ... this project was supposed to be done last night, and this is the only issue I have left ...

I published a presentation and now I am trying to add it to the online training portal ...

The portal area I am adding is html ...

I have manged to add a iframe and call the standard html and html5 pages, and have the correct size and that is all fine ...

What I want to however do is not autoplay the flash file and to initially set the volume to 20%

I am at a loss ... and I have been working on it for 7 straight hours to just do this simple parameter ...

I seem to remember in the older version of Presenter ... you did not have to use the html page and use the Player instead ..

It seems now that is gone and the only way you can get the swf file to play is to use the html page ...

I have tried adding every autoplay possible parameter directly in the HTML page in the members portal ...

//// - Not in script but had to here or the presentation is embedded and begins to play

<iframe video id="player" src="http://www.aeii.net/Documents/Presentations/Webinar/How%20We%20Got%20Where%20We%20Are%20Today/Presentation_html5.html" play="false" width="510" Height="480" FrameBorder="0" ></iframe>

I have tried: autoplay=,   with false, "false", 0,  or "0"  ... same with play ... I also found a post to add the & so I tried all combinations in the html on the portal. It always autoplays ...

I then found a javascript snippet:

<script>

backgroundVideo=document.getElementById("Player");

backgroundVideo.volume=0.2;

backgroundVideo.autoplay=0

</script>

This works fine if the source is a standard video, and is how I set the initial parameters for all the mp4 videos I have in the program ... but because we are embedding a html page it does not work ...

So then I started looking at the code in the html pages and the js files ...

I messed around with both the html and html5 files and nothing I did had any effect ... so I then went to the js files ...

and again ... nothing had any effect ...

The swf file will not play if I use any Flash snippets I checked out, and I tried to use open the swf directly locally and it does not play as well, so I assuming it is not a full swf that can be played in a player by its self ...

I am at a loss to stop the flash presentation from auto playing, and to set the volume lower since it it initially too loud ...

I found various lines for these ... in the html5 code there is a specific autoplay parameter listed and it always published as "true", so I changed it to false, and it has no effect ...

I saw many more parameters  listed for both of these in the mobile js file ... but I am first trying to get this done for a standard desktop browser ...

I have created hundreds of flash files over the years, and in all of them there is at least a autoplay checkbox that allows to be set ...

What can I do ???

In the meantime, I am going to try to do a workaround and create an iframe container, place a button to play the video and play it in the frame created ... but I would think there should be a straightforward way to do this ... and it will not solve my volume issue.

HELP !!!!

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