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How to embed mp4 video into a player that appears on an html page
I have an mp4 video file that I can link to and have play using the native player on the client's machine (on mine, the player that plays it is quicktime). Instead of relying on a native player, I instead would like to embed the video into a player that shows up within the html page (with play/pause buttons, etc). How can I do this using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3?
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video how to using dreamweaver
http://www.layersmagazine.
as a recomendation i really wouldn't do MP4 for web video it is very codec dependent. mp4 contains the following formats that users may or may not have installed on their systems
xvid
video for windows
divx
quicktime
and flash and varrious others i'm sure i'm forgetting or don't know about
are all based to some degree on mp4 compression. so simply saying mp4 really isn't enough information. just because it ends up in the .mp4 extension doesn't tell me how or what encoded the video
flash video is based on mp4 and has become more of a standard than the actual .mp4 extension for web based video. The main reason Dreamweaver does not have direct .mp4 support is because adobe owns flash and its more popular as a web format. In order to do what you are talking about most that i have read are recomending an apple quicktime compatible plug in for your webpage but even then the user must have the propper codec that will read how you encoded the "mp4" file.
you can reference these threads for more on the topic
http://www.htmlhelpcentral
http://dvcreators.net/disc
http://answers.yahoo.com/q
if you want native dreamweaver support use flash
if you want the higher quality of mp4 use a quicktime plugin and please try to encode with a codec that most people will have you cannot embed the codec into the the player or into the page that is all done on the client side.
--wild
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C
<PA
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="false">
<EMBED SRC="video.mov" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300" AUTOPLAY="true" CONTROLLER="false" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.ap
</E
</OBJEC
This will play an play Mp4. If someone does not have the plugin, they will be prompted to download it.
You will need to edit the dimensions of the video and the SRC VALUE
For no CONTROLLER = FALSE, with a CONTROLLER = TRUE
AUTOPLAY can be changed as well.
The best way would be to convert it to a flash video (flv) file if you have Flash. If not, there are plenty converters available for download. Check out
http://www.google.com/sear
>> This will play an play Mp4. If someone does not have the plugin, they will be prompted to download it.
Hi amblin,
That's exactly what you want to avoid...relying on the user to download and install a plugin. 1) It takes extra time for the user to do that and they may decide your page isn't worth it and 2) Less technical users get freaked out by having to download ANYTHING and you want to avoid freaking out the users if at all possible.
>> The best way would be to convert it to a flash video (flv) file
Agreed and that's why the accepted answers were chosen.
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by: wildstar10Posted on 2008-12-11 at 08:20:14ID: 23149637
I use flowplayer for this
they have very detailed instructions on its use at their site
http://flowplayer.org/