How to embed video in webpage?

[aljames]

Thought I'd start a new topic.

Can anyone point me towards online resource that gives me instructions on how to embed video (mpeg) into a webpage? Ideally I want potential visitors to not have to download or install any plugins to view, hence mpeg viewing facility should be standard in more spec PCs?

Hope to hear, thanks

Al

[Jenny]

Have you tried the traditional HTML?

<object data="movie.mpg" type="video/mpg" width="200" height="200">

or a bit more antique :

<embed src="movie.mpg" width="200" height="200" autostart="true" type="movie/mpg">


Jenny

[aljames]

Thanks Jenny, I tried the second bit of code and it displayed the windows media graphic, but what goes in the ="video/mpg" bit?

Does adding this code mean that the mpeg will play for every one of my visitors?
Thanks again
Al

[aljames]

p.s. I have a 10Mb wmv file as the video. What is the best program for compressing this to bog std mpeg format? and will it be the same size or smaller?

Al

[Jenny]

Multimedia content and video content in particular is not very easy to handle. The file sizes are very high and you never know if the target computer is able to display it (right codec???)

For displaying a video, I would offer it as Real (Helix) and WMV/ASF stream and as MPG to download.

Both tools (Helix) and WMV encoder are free.

www.real.com
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

A nice converting software can be found here : http://www.flaskmpeg.net/

[markjanssen]

Originally posted by Jenny
Have you tried the traditional HTML?

<object data="movie.mpg" type="video/mpg" width="200" height="200">

or a bit more antique :

<embed src="movie.mpg" width="200" height="200" autostart="true" type="movie/mpg">


Jenny

Don't use the embed, it's abolished (as you said already).
Also don't refer to any proprietary plugins unless you really need to, and even then use one that works on several platforms. That's also why you should *never ever* use windows media as the only choice: nobody not using windows will be able to view it (unless they do some nasty tricks etc. etc.).
I would really recommend aljames to do some multiplatform and multibrowser testing before putting the code in public pages. And even then, I'd recommend you to place a link to the video so people can download it and view it in their favourite player.

[aljames]

Good advice mark. I will arrange different video types shortly.

I've tried encoding my wmv (34Mb video) into an mpeg1 using premier pro 7 but the resultant file is like, 650 Mb!!

How can I get this to be around 10Mb MPEG but similar quality to the wmv file?

Also is MPEG2 better?

Al

[markjanssen]

MPEG2 gives better quality on lower file sizes I think.

[aljames]

mpeg 2 produces the same 650mb file size.

[markjanssen]

Thats weird. Are you sure that you're not highering the resolution or framerate?

[Jenny]

Originally posted by markjanssen
[b]That's also why you should *never ever* use windows media as the only choice: nobody not using windows will be able to view it (unless they do some nasty tricks etc. etc.).

That's why I mentioned Helix

Jenny

[Waldovia PM]

I just found out Netscape won't ask Media Player to open wmv videos

I've decided to use avi instead.

[markjanssen]

WMV should work in netscape/mozilla/firefox.
I wouldn't advise you to use it, but it should just work.