Q:

Flash movie not showing up in IE8 on my PC. Can someone take a look?

I have a flash movie on a login page that shows up fine in every browser apart from IE8 (surprise surprise!), where I just see a red cross in a square. You can see what I mean if you look at the page in IE:
http://monthlymixup.com/index.php
Here is the relevant code:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="mixup.swf" width="800" height="445">
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>

The movie was created in Flash 10 with ActionScript 3. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why it is isn't working in IE?
Thanks,
Nick

A:

I did some more googling around and found out that I needed to enter the code as follows: 
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="mixup.swf" width="800" height="445"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="movie" value="mixup.swf">

For the flicker at the start of the flash movie, where the frame could be seen before the movie started, I needed to preload the flash movie.

