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Hello, im new to this website and i need some help with a flash sig i made.

the url to the sig is http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h20/2308004/TRASHESSEX.swf

i am trying to get it to work on the forums of my clan.

the sig is not showing just the link with [IMG]http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h20/2308004/TRASHESSEX.swf[/IMG]

thats it i tryed the html and many other things.

how can i get this to work on the forums

thanks ahead of time

Mike-

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was right to check whether the board actually supports embedded Flash. There are two separate barriers here: most forum BBCode image tags only accept raster images (GIF/JPG/PNG), so pointing them at a .swf will usually show a link or nothing; and modern browsers no longer run native Flash plugins. Adobe ended Flash Player support on 2020-12-31, so relying on SWF in signatures is fragile today (Adobe Flash Player EOL).

If the forum allows raw HTML in signatures and you must keep the SWF (note: still depends on client-side Flash support), the usual HTML wrapper is an <object> with a fallback block. Example:

<object width="400" height="100" data="https://yourhost.example/yourfile.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
  <param name="movie" value="https://yourhost.example/yourfile.swf" />
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
  Flash not available — show a static image or link.
</object>

Because browser/plugin support is gone for many visitors, practical options that actually work now:

  • Replace the SWF with an animated GIF or a short MP4 and use the forum image/video BBCode. Record the SWF playback (screen capture) or render frames, then convert to GIF with ffmpeg (ffmpeg.org):
    ffmpeg -i clip.mp4 -vf "fps=15,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen" -y palette.png
ffmpeg -i clip.mp4 -i palette.png -lavfi "fps=15,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" -loop 0 out.gif
  • Host a thumbnail image in your signature that links to a page hosting the SWF (or to a short video). That keeps the sig usable even if Flash won’t play.
  • If you control the site, consider a JS emulator like Ruffle to run SWFs without the Flash plugin (Ruffle).

Checklist: confirm signature HTML permissions, check width/size limits, host the file on a server that allows hotlinking, and prefer GIF/HTML5 for long-term compatibility.

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check with the forum admin to see if they allow swf sig files.

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he said yes, i read one time that there was a code you need for them to work like

<EMBED>[IMG]WEBSITEURL[/IMG]</EMBED>
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