Whats wrong with this video embed code?

Question

Following embed code is from http://hd.se/landskrona/2010/04/09/kunglig-glans-pa-idrottsgalan/ but it doesn't work in Internet Explorer 8. Firefox no problems.

Any recommendations for improvements? Thanks for your time!

<object width="480px" height="294px" id="_36313041" data="http://hd.se/static/media/html/flash/video-3/flowplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="movie" value="http://hd.se/static/media/html/flash/video-3/flowplayer.swf" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="flashvars" value='config={"key":"$3fff7448b28a8cffc85","contextMenu":["hd.se videospelare 1.0"],"plugins":{"rtmp":{"url":"http://hd.se/static/media/html/flash/video-3/flowplayer.rtmp.swf"},"controls":{"height":24,"opacity":1,"all":false,"play":true,"time":true,"scrubber":true,"playlist":false,"mute":true,"volume":true,"fullscreen":true,"backgroundColor":"#222222","backgroundGradient":"none","buttonColor":"#7c7c7c","buttonOverColor":"#36558b","progressColor":"#7c7c7c","bufferColor":"#7c7c7c","timeColor":"#ffffff","durationColor":"#ffffff","timeBgColor":"#222222","scrubberHeightRatio":0.5,"scrubberBarHeightRatio":0.5,"volumeSliderHeightRatio":0.5,"volumeBarHeightRatio":0.5,"autoHide":"fullscreen","hideDelay":1800,"tooltips":{"buttons":true,"play":"Spela","pause":"Paus","next":"Nästa","previous":"Föregående","mute":"Ljud av","unmute":"Ljud på","fullscreen":"Fullskärmsläge","fullscreenExit":"Lämna fullskärmsläge"},"tooltipColor":"#153872","tooltipTextColor":"#ffffff"},"contentIntro":{"url":"http://hd.se/static/media/html/flash/video-3/flowplayer.content.swf","top":0,"width":736,"border":"none","backgroundColor":"#202020","backgroundGradient":"none","borderRadius":"none","opacity":"85pct","display":"none","closeButton":true}},"canvas":{"backgroundColor":"#000000","backgroundGradient":"none"},"play":{"replayLabel":"Spela igen"},"screen":{"bottom":24},"clip":{"scaling":"fit","autoPlay":true},"playlist":[{"provider":"rtmp","netConnectionUrl":"rtmp://fl0.c06062.cdn.qbrick.com/06062","url":"ncode/hdstart","autoPlay":false,"scaling":"fit"},{"url":"http://hd.se/multimedia/archive/00425/_kunligglans_HD_VP6_425359a.flv","scaling":"fit","autoPlay":true},{"provider":"rtmp","netConnectionUrl":"rtmp://fl0.c06062.cdn.qbrick.com/06062","url":"ncode/hdstopp","autoPlay":true,"scaling":"fit"}]}' />
</object>

UPDATE 2010-05-14:

If I'm not mistaken HD.se uses Flowplayer and all those flasvars are for that. Perhaps someone here is good with Flowplayer? I've never used it myself.

Answer 1

You cannot have 'px' in the width and height attributes, only a number. Also IDs cannot start with an underscore, they can only start with a letter.

So your code should start <object width="480" height="294" id="f_36313041". However, if the ID is used for anything you may have to change external code somewhere.

Have you double-checked the value of "flashvars" too? It's an incredibly long and complex string so there could easily be an error there somewhere.

Answer 2

You should not create object/embed tags directly to embed Flash. Always use an external JS file to generate the required tags. SWFObject is the most widely used one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWFObject

Info on why you want to use an external JS file:

http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/12/15/internet-explorer-eolas-changes-and-the-flash-plugin/