Breeze 5 and Flash Player 9

With the BMS-wide rollout of Flash Player 9, you may experience problems with Breeze 5 presentations recently created.

Here is the issue, reason and solution as stated from Adobe:

Issue
There is an issue for users who have both Breeze Presenter and Adobe Flash Player 9 installed on their machines. When attempting to create Breeze Presentations with embedded Flash content the content does not display properly.

Reason
The issue occurs because of a Flash Player component registration change that is inconsistent with previous naming conventions.

With Flash Player versions up to Flash Player 8, the Shockwave ActiveX container was identified as "ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.1."

With Flash Player 9 this is now identified as "ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.9." Since Breeze Presenter is looking for "ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.1" it does not expect or recognize the new naming convention, thus publishing is not successful.

Solution
Engineering has created a DLL that fixes the problem, which will be rolled into a Presenter update in the next version of Breeze.

To address this issue before the next release follow these steps to install the DLL.

1. Download the the correct DLL from
   ftp://breezeext:bif4mh$$@zip.adobe.com/patches/ppt2swf.zip
2. Browse to the C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Breeze 5 folder.
3. Find the ppt2swf.dll file and rename the file to pp2swf.old
4. Unzip the file downloaded file and place the file in the C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Breeze 5 folder.
5. Republish any Breeze Presentations that contain SWF files.