Video on web site

[av8or]

I would like to post a video on my web site. I'd like for the viewer to be able to click on a play button and view the video directly on the site. I don't want them to have to rely on an external video player such as Real Player or Caffeine or WMP.

What would it take to accomplish this task assuming I already have the video in a digital format?

[ph34r]

Nothing. Browsers aren't capable of playing video, and will need a plugin. That being said, convert your video to a common format with a common codec - mpeg would probably do it.

[ocmnet]

Try this:

<embed SRC="myvideo.avi" AUTOSTART=TRUE WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 ALIGN=ABSMIDDLE LOOP=FALSE>

[bwkaz]

Try this:

<embed SRC="myvideo.avi" AUTOSTART=TRUE WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 ALIGN=ABSMIDDLE LOOP=FALSE>

Which will only work if your browser has a plugin that understands whatever MIME-type your web server sends for "myvideo.avi", and also understands all the extra attributes that you've put in here.

My guess is this will only work in IE, on Windows.

[timothykaine]

Thats actually the preferred command for Netscape/Mozilla. It will work in in any popular browser, and a recent version of IE. Older versions of IE request an IE-specific tag.

[av8or]

Ok, so if I use this:

<embed SRC="myvideo.avi" AUTOSTART=TRUE WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 ALIGN=ABSMIDDLE LOOP=FALSE>

How can I provide the viewer with stop, start and pause buttons?

[bwkaz]

It will work in in any popular browser,

... As long as that browser can display whatever MIME-type your web server sends for the .avi file. If the user doesn't have some AVI-playing plugin installed, their browser will display a large block saying "click here to get the plugin".

[timothykaine]

... As long as that browser can display whatever MIME-type your web server sends for the .avi file. If the user doesn't have some AVI-playing plugin installed, their browser will display a large block saying "click here to get the plugin".

I thought that part went without saying. No media without a plugin. I was just making sure it was known that that command works in all recent browsers, not just Internet Explorer, and that its actually the least likely to accept the command (as all versions of all Mozilla browsers will handle that command).

[thaddaeus]

I will concure with bwkaz that the embed tag still relies on the media's mime type and the appropriate plugin installed. do a search for the w3c schools. the w3c has a lot of info and some tuts on useing certain code (it is the world wide web consortium)

[MorphiusFaydal]

Frame: build it yourself out of HTML

Control buttons: you don't supply, the video player does.

google is your friend.

www.w3schools.com

[Modorf]

flash or java?

[MorphiusFaydal]

flash, yuck
java, inconvenient way

best to leave it to the player of the end user