Video display on website - How?

[HarveyP]

3 years ago, I created kirbyglass - the second of 3 sites I have authored. I use HTML Transitional 4.01, CSS, some php, some javascript.

My wife has videoed one of her wind chimes and wants it displayed on her website. I said "OK. No problem", but when I came to do it there was a problem!! or 2.

The main problem is that I have been unable to find any instruction on how to display an AVI file. Using a search I found several articles, mainly on YouTube, about AVI, and many about HTML, but nothing about both.

The second problem may go away when I have cracked the first - my wife rotated the camera through 90° in order to get the whole wind chime in the "correct" orientation.

Any pointers or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[HarveyP]

I have discovered <OBJECT> and am currently playing with it to get it going. However my second problem still remains - how to rotate a video through 90°?

[TrafficProducer]

I could be best, if you don't have one to create a YouTube account, I think they will accept AVI files... After uploading to YouTube they provide Embed code to place on a website.

Or may be load AVI into MS MoveMaker and save a different file type.

For editing Look for WAX and/or VirtualDub (Free which can do all sorts, flip, rotate, colour balance, convert file types, etc)

Videos to Watch and Video Publishing (http://www.acomputerportal.com/videos_to_watch_video_publishing.html)

[martyn-it]

This is the code for a quicktime object that will play an AVI

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="195" width="340" name="clock.avi" align="left">');
document.write('<param name="src" value="clock.avi">');
document.write('<param name="autoplay" value="true">');
document.write('<param name="controller" value="true">');
document.write('<embed height="195" width="340" align="left" src="clock.avi" autoplay="true" controller="true">');
document.write('</embed> ');
document.write('</object>')
</script>

Martyn

[Jesper10]

Or with your own Videoplayer
flashactionscripttutorials.com/?p=projects&actionscript-functie=Videoplayer

[Manpasand]

Simple method is to create a YouTube account, upload it and insert the YouTube particular video link in your web page.

[Anil Ji Garg]

I’m starting to learn to develop in HTML, PHP and My SQL and then I’m trying to make a little web-site of recipes. I want to develop a function to add a new recipe in witch I can, when I want to display it, download an image or a video of it but I don’t know how to proceed, with which tools.

[TrafficProducer]

I’m starting to learn to develop in HTML, PHP and My SQL and then I’m trying to make a little web-site of recipes. I want to develop a function to add a new recipe in witch I can, when I want to display it, download an image or a video of it but I don’t know how to proceed, with which tools.



Maybe a Blog will do most, or all of this. ;)

[fionali]

sorry to hear that. i only know Youtube is the best choice.

[texxs]

I could be best, if you don't have one to create a YouTube account, I think they will accept AVI files... After uploading to YouTube they provide Embed code to place on a website.

That is one way and it works out great for non commercial sites. But note that they will show thumbs and links to related content. For a lot of people, this means competition.

As for the original question. It is possible to embed an .avi, .mpg etc. into a web page, it's just not recommended because it doesn't work in most browsers and in the ones it does work in it works differently on different computers.

If it's a professional appearance you want check out my Add a Video (http://texxsmith.com/specials/add-a-video.php) special I'm currently running. It costs less than the software you need to buy to embed the video on your site (if it's a non commercial site you can get the software for free). If it is just a personal web site I would recommend "JW Player (http://longtailvideo.com/)".

Caution:
If you are using wordpress be extremely careful using plugins to embed a video, there's a couple people who stole JW player and are using it in their plug in with their own name on it. I had an associate get sued by the folks who make the JW player over it.

hope this helps!

[TrafficProducer]

It's the words, (pun intended), LongTail (http://www.acomputerportal.com/advertising_methods/long_tail_short_tail.html) that make an impact in my view.

Here's a bit more about LongTail video's (http://www.instantsubmissions.com/index.html) (Leads to an affiliated link but you may get the idea from this page, whithout clicking on that link)

[sagemaster]

use camtasia's player then just use swf video files to connect to it.