The establishment of  Global Animation Center is part of ECER’s plan for Terengganu. I’m sure there is an allocation of funding for us to benefit from in developing our studio to become a world class animation studio. I really hope that this visit will spark a new relationship and cooperation between EPICT and ECER with the generous help of the State.

Photos by Shuk

I uploaded the draft SWF of the website to the server to do a quick check. Linking… ok. Loading… ok, oh but maybe I need to add a pre-loader later. And here comes my favorite part… the videos! I clicked on the button, a transparent black background faded in and……….. eh, where’s the video?

Ok let’s check with the other videos. Nowhere in sight? How come? Hmm, must be the linking, I thought to myself.

I opened the FLA file again. Tried inserting an absolute url. Uploaded and…. still, nada! Even the player did not load. Weird.

I tried fixing the problem in every way that I could thought of; re-embedding the video, re-inserting the URL, uploading to different servers……… to no avail. I got home feeling stupid and pressured. Like the saying goes, I was ‘mandi tak basah, tidur tak lena’. My mind kept on figuring out the possible answer to the problem.

At last, I googled. Hehe.

It seems that the problem I had is a common one regarding streaming FLVs. In one of the forums, someone suggested to add a MIME extension type since Microsoft IIS 6.0, the default web server that ships with Windows 2003, requires a MIME type to recognize that FLV files are streamed media. I was skeptical at first, but gave it a try.

* Associated Extension box: .FLV
* MIME Type box: flv-application/octet-stream

With the help of my fellow colleague, the details were entered and tadaaaaaaaaaaaaa! My FLVs are now streamable! Yea!

Since that issue has been solved, I gotta get back to do more Flash-ing. Till next time!
(Next time? Probably when there’s new issue on board. But hopefully I would write again once the website is completed! )