Videos on website?

Phaser · 2 Jul 2006 at 16:31

Whats the best way of adding 2-3 min videos onto a website?

I want it so that theres a row of images, you click an image and the video loads underneath.

Is this possible?

Videos are in .avi format but if theres some free coverting software thats fine..

Cheers.

jbloggs · 2 Jul 2006 at 18:42

Phaser:

I tried this with WMV and Quicktime files (small), but I could not get it too stream properly, what happened was that the whole file had to download first before it ran, it seems the reason for this was for them to "stream" almost straight away, you need to upload them and run them from a "Streaming Server".

Maybe there is a way, but I was not able to find it, so if there is (without uploading to a "streaming server), it will solve a problem for me too.

Phaser · 2 Jul 2006 at 18:54

I've noticed this site.

http://www.shotdemrecords.co.uk/artists.htm

They seem to do it fine?

Also http://bounce-nation.com/videos.html are doing it with Quicktime?

I know what you mean about the streaming server as thats what I use to do video on Internet Radio, but this is slightly different.

Phaser · 2 Jul 2006 at 19:09

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash+Video+Player

Check that mate.

jbloggs · 2 Jul 2006 at 20:07

Phaser:

The first and third ones are done by Flash, they both run immediately with me, the second one, the Quicktime one doesn't run immediately, it seems to have to download first and then run. Of the 3 of them I think the first is the best.

I did something similiar but putting jpegs into a Flash Photo Album, using Flash Album Creator, but even then I could not get it too stream (almost) immediately, it has to download first and then run. I got fed up of trying different ideas to get it to stream properly so just left it to run when it had downloaded. It was for a family website so it was not extremely important to be absolutely spot on. If I could find out how the first flash video was done, that would be good.

Phaser · 2 Jul 2006 at 20:43

It's done by Wimpy player.

I've found a free version which is similar (see above) and it works fine on my website.

However, i've now added my own video, and it dosen't seem to be working.

http://offlimitscrew.co.uk/new2/video.php

I think that might be because its a tad too large - 15 MB?

Phaser · 2 Jul 2006 at 21:02

Anyone else help?

jbloggs · 2 Jul 2006 at 21:48

Phaser:

I tried to run the video on offlimitscrwe, but even after quite a few minutes (enough time for it to download) it still would not run/stream. I then had a look at the WMV that I am using on my family website, it is 12.5MB and it starts to stream/run in under a minute, so I think it is something else with yours and not the file size, but what it is I don't know. :confused:

Phaser · 2 Jul 2006 at 21:55

Hmm, what format are you using mate? Could you give me a link so I can have a look at the code etc?

I've just tried with a popup javascript window with an embedded windows media player stream.

http://offlimitscrew.co.uk/new2/video.php

Only seems to be working in FF though. And i'm still getting the delays! Arghhhhhhh!

jbloggs · 2 Jul 2006 at 22:08

Phaser:

I used Macromedia Dreamweaver 2004MX, and embedded WMP10 (via plugin option) to play a WMV of 12.5MB, the HTML code on the page is:

<embed src="P1000637.wmv" width="320" height="256"></embed>

"P1000637.wmv" is the actual video file.

EDIT:

When I stated above that it wouldn't load/run for me I was using IE6.

It does play in FFox but takes quite a time (as you also experienced) to run.