How To Add An .avi Video To My Site?

[iaconetti]

hi, everyone...

 

shot a couple of very short videos over the holidays with a Canon 520 digital camera. (not a camcorder, just a little 3Mpixel digital camera)

 

they have an .avi extension and play fine on my computer...but when i tried to upload them to a page on my site, they either don't show up or don't play.

 

what am i missing here? can this be done, and if so, would someone be kind enough to explain it in some detail?

many many thanks...

 

and on another subject: am just starting to use FrontPage. is it any easier ot better to use FP extentions in the new site? seems as though it would make it easier to publish with a right-click on any given page, but i'm still confused on this. it's a very simple site, no chat room capabilities or guest books, etc.

 

again, GIANT thanks for great TCH people and service!

 

joan i.

[TCH-Bruce]

You would have to create links to allow the file to be downloaded to be played.

 

Upload the avi to your webspace using FTP or cPanel

On the web page enter a link to download the avi file using my movie style

 

Be aware that avi files are quite large and if popular could use up your bandwidth quite quickly.

 

I don't use nor recommend FrontPage but to publish a site made with FrontPage the extensions must be installed.

[TCH-JimE]

Hello,

 

Some browsers can not as clever as others, and some just don't like exeternal files unless put into the web page correctley, thus you can always try the following. This is for activeX Windows Media Player which is installed on 99% of computers.

 

><object width="320" height="290" 
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" 
id="mediaplayer1">
<param name="Filename" value="film.avi">
<param name="AutoStart" value="True">
<param name="ShowControls" value="True">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="False">
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="False">
<param name="AutoRewind" value="True">
<embed 
type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/MediaPlayer/"
width="320" height="290" src="/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/film.avi"
filename="kids.mpg" autostart="True" 
showcontrols="True" showstatusbar="False" 
showdisplay="False" autorewind="True">
</embed> 
</object>

 

Things you have to watch for are:

• Height and width must be the same for both the embeded and the object parts (You need both because not all browsers like embeded, and wrapping them the way they are above will sort out any backwards compatability
  

The rest of the options are pretty self explantatory.

 

As Bruce mentions above, video eats up bandwidth and like Bruce, I neither use or recommeded Frontpage.

 

Jimuni