Playing movies (mpegs) on web pages

[coolbluepheonix]

Hello All,
I am sure this question has been asked many a times. I have worked designing web pages but never could figure out how to play video files over the web.

Please help/advice..

Pheonix...

[tedster]

Welcome to the forums, Phoenix.

The object element is one good way to go. See:
[w3.org...]

[coolbluepheonix]

Thanks for the reply Tedster.
What I am trying to do is play Mpeg files using Windows Media Player on my webpage.
Whats the method for that.
Is there any plug and play type editor that can do this..

Pheonix...!

[webtrix]

coolblue,

I think this is what your looking for!

example:

<EMBED SRC="example.avi", WIDTH=150, HEIGHT=250 CONTROLS=TRUE>

Let me know if this works for you, unless I misunderstood.

[coolbluepheonix]

Hello Webtrix,
Does this mean if I have this code placed on my web page (html/asp) it will play a avi file automatically with all the quicktime controls.

If yes then perfect.

That brings me to part 2.
All my movies are mpeg..so do I have to convert them all to avi in order to play it online or there is a similar code for mpegs as well...

Thanks in advance..
Pheonix...

[danimal]

embedded windows media player should be able to handle your mpegs, but what you really need to do is to find the source file that the mpegs were made from, and encode to a modern codec standard from that... using mpegs as an encoding source is a guarantee of lousy quality.

[a1call]

Hi,
One thing to note:
FireFox does not support embedded movies. I learned that the hard way.

[luvdavy]

I've just spent the last 2 days doing videos and have this fresh on my mind if you want to email me. What I'm using is Mp3's. If MPEGS work the same way, then I can tell you how to do it with a couple of copy/pasted scripts.

Jan

[luvdavy]

Duh...I meant WMVs, not Mp3's. It will work with any kind of Windows files, I think.

[coolbluepheonix]

Hello luvdavy
Please do help in setting up mpeg on the web.

Thanks in advance..

Pheonix.

[Lobo]

Here is a situation in which I believe Flash is probibly the best option ...

The uptake of flash player is pretty universal now...

It removes the issues of compatible codecs, player availability, download wait times, etc etc ....

It loads progessively, the video file is held on the server and is called in to the .swf file ..

If you must use video on load or indeed in anyway apart from download, then I would recommend Flash..

[luvdavy]

Hello luvdavy
Please do help in setting up mpeg on the web.

Email me at jan at myrtlebeachwebdesign dot com and I'll be happy to help you with a streaming script.

Jan