You can preview movies and animations that rely on plugins—that is, elements that use the EMBED tag—directly in the Document window. (It is not possible to view movies or animations that rely on ActiveX controls.) You can play all plugin elements at one time to see how the page will look to the user, or you can play each one individually to ensure that you have embedded the correct multimedia element.
To play movies, the proper plugins must be installed on your machine. Dreamweaver automatically searches for all installed plugins on startup, looking first in the Configuration/Plugins folder and then in the plugin folders of all installed browsers.
To play plugin content in the Document window:
| 1 | Insert one or more multimedia elements by choosing Insert > Shockwave, Insert > Flash, or Insert > Plugin. |
| 2 | Choose from one of the following options: |
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Select one of the multimedia elements you have inserted and choose View > Plugin > Play. |
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Choose View > Plugin > Play All to play all of the multimedia elements on the page that rely on plugins. |
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To stop playing plugin content:
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Select a multimedia element and choose View > Plugin > Stop, or choose View > Plugin > Stop All to stop all plugin content from playing. |
If, after you follow the steps to play plugin content in the Document window, some of the plugin content does not play, try the following:
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Make sure that the associated plugin is installed on your machine, and that the plugin version is compatible with the movie version. |
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Open the file called badplugins.cfg in a text editor and look to see if the plugin in question is listed. The badplugins.cfg file keeps track of plugins that will crash Dreamweaver or cause other serious problems. (If you experience problems with a particular plugin, consider adding it to this file.) |
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Check that you have enough memory (and on the Macintosh, that enough memory is allocated to Dreamweaver). Some plugins require an additional 2 MB to 5 MB of memory to run. |