rhg1,
Jason1178 is too humble to post it, but he has actually written an excellent article on adding video to your website. You can read it here:
http://www.experts-exchang
Cheers,
LHerrou
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how to embed video player on my site (Using Dreamweaver)
The word embed is limiting but i put it in the question header just for searching.
Am building a website and I want users to be able to play movies listed on the page, in a "player" in the middle of the screen. I followed a tutorial on the web and using quicktime I can play an mpg on FF (Firefox), IE and Netscape. But when i put the files on the web it does not work at all.
Rather than me post the code, can we start from scratch. It has been suggested I need to use active X for windows users and because of the way IE is now built I have to put a separate js file on the web server to take care of that. Is it really that complicated? The fact that I am using DW (Dreamweaver ) is probably of no consequence as if I have the code i can paste it in.
WHAT I WANT (ideally)
Whether the user is on a PC or a Mac, and on 'any' browser,
when a video is selected, Quicktime opens on the screen, and plays the video (or starts streaming and plays when it is ready or when the user clicks play)
Can I forgo using active X if the Quicktime "player" is coming in from Apple on demand or am I ignorant here? If i am right, then with the right code, Quicktime player would play on any browser including those that do not have Quicktime already installed.
Experts please..?
I have had trouble on this forum from people skimming and then answering without fully understanding what I am asking, and from those who shoot off hasty best guesses, but with no real experience in solving my question.
Could i respectfully ask to limit Experts to those who have ACTUALLY done this successfully please?
Many thanks.
[win XP,
Dweaver CS3,
Webserver: linux]
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This code does the job.
Plays an mpg on IE, FF and NS on PC and Safari and FF on the Mac
Other params (parameters) can be added to control various things. See:
http://www.apple.com/q
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C
<param name="src" value="mywebsite.com/myvid
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="type" value="video/quicktime" height="260" width="340">
<embed src="mywebsite.com/myvideo
</objec
So that code will work, but it assumes that the user has the correct plugin already installed or has permissions to install the plugin if they don't. Not knowing in advance who your target audience is, I would still recommend switching to Flash Video as it is almost universally present.
But the above embedding code will work.
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by: jason1178Posted on 2009-11-07 at 09:25:40ID: 25767155
Hi rhg1,
If we are starting from scratch, then can I recommend that you rethink the whole thing?
The problem with the above is that by messing with ActiveX and Quicktime, you are giving yourself too many variables to manage and making this way too hard. What you ought to do is convert all your video to flv and use something like the JW media player or Flowplayer to playback. Because this is now an all Flash solution, you no longer need to worry about which browser, OS, or plugin is present since Flash is cross-platform an almost universally present. One code block solves all of the issues.