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Asked: 2026-06-11T16:09:58+00:00

I’m looking to play a flash video hosted on a remote website. I’ve tried

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I’m looking to play a flash video hosted on a remote website. I’ve tried the following (and profuse google-ing):

In source of page on http://fakesite1.com/player.jsp:

<embed src = "FlashPlayer.swf?file=http://fakesite2.net/video.flv" />

I can browse to http://fakesite2.net/video.flv and ensure it’s there, but the player comes back “movie not loaded” (on right-click) on fakesite1. My initial guess is that this might be some sort of security feature… is it possible to play a video hosted on a remote site?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The message “Movie not loaded” as seen in the context menu of an SWF object in a webpage means that the .swf file was not loaded by the browser plugin. The main cause is that that SWF file doesn’t exist and the plugin got a 404 error, in which case make sure that the path to the SWF file is correctly set.

    Also, the <embed> element is obsolete in modern HTML. Use <object> instead, as seen below.

    Note that various versions of IE (except IE9/10, possibly including IE8) do not support the HTML5 <object data="" /> element, they prefer the IE4-era <object clsid="" /> element, so use a conditional comment, like so:

    <!--[if IE]>
<object width="640" height="480" data="http://mysite.com/myflash.swf" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" >
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object width="640" height="480" data="http://mysite.com/myflash.swf" />
<!--<![endif]-->
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