On my website, I display 15-30 sec videos. Currently, I capture the videos in mpeg1 format so that they are able to be viewed by the majority of my customers. I'd like to capture them in a higher quality like .wmv or mpeg2 but too many people can't view those types of files.
So I'm thinking and have tried capturing them in the highest quality possible and then converting them to .flv or .swv
My problem is that now I can't seem to embed them and make them show up. I have converted the files and they look great on my pc, but do not show up on the site. Can someone give me some embedded code at about 400 width, 300 height for flash.
Also, do I need a player in the same folder I store my videos? This is all new to me and any help is much appreciated!
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Originally Posted by KameronK
But you can dress it with your skin if you want.
I suggest reading more, macromedia had plenty of details on its site, but since it was bought by adobe i guess you must search on adobe's kb now.
old example:
Code:<object width="SIZE IN PIXELS" height="SIZE IN PIXELS" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"> <param name="salign" value="lt"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="scale" value="noscale"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="movie" value="http://YOURFLV.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="&streamName=FLV_Video_URL&skinName=http://YOURSITE/flvskin&autoPlay=true&autoRewind=true"> <embed width="SIZE IN PIXELS" height="SIZE IN PIXELS" flashvars="&streamName=FLV_Video_URL&autoPlay=true&autoRewind=true&skinName=http://YOURSITE/flvskin" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="LT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://YOURSITE/flvplay.swf" wmode="transparent"> </embed></object>
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That looks very similar to the type of code I'm plugging into my site. However, I'm a novice (at best) lol, so I just copy code like that from wherever I see it and replace 'YOURSITE' and such with my files and urls. However it still comes up blank.
I guess I just need to read more, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Any other thoughts? -
KameronK
I'm just a hack at this, but I do put quite a few videos on web pages in flash. For me, I use FrontPage2003 to insert the " movie in flash" object - Resulting code is -
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000" id="obj1" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" border="0" width="400" height="300">
<param name="movie" value="YOUR FILE.swf">
<param name="quality" value="High">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
<embed src="YOUR FILE.swf" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="obj1" width="400" height="300" quality="High" bgcolor="#000000"></object>
Where "YOUR FILE.swf" (the player shell) and "YOUR FILE.flv" (the movie) are in the same directory.
Good luck. -
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That sounds close, but don't I have to link the file in somehow? Like give the actual URL of where the file is stored? I don't see that in the code.. -
Even more lost.. lol
Let's say in my control panel I upload MYVIDEO.swv into the VIDEOS folder.
I don't need to have a url in the code like www.MYWEBSITE/VIDEOS/MYVIDEO.swv in the source code? So that it pulls the video from somewhere?
Another issue I have is the code changing. For example, I will code something like this:
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
CODEBASE="http://active.macromedia.com
/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="155">
<PARAM NAME="MOVIE" VALUE="movie_name.swf">
<PARAM NAME="QUALITY" VALUE="HIGH">
<PARAM NAME="PLAY" VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM NAME="LOOP" VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM NAME="BGCOLOR" VALUE="#FFFFFF">
<EMBED SRC="movie_name.swf" QUALITY="HIGH" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="155"
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/
index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
After I save, I go back into the file it has turned to this:
<object codebase="http://active.macromedia.com
/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0" height="155" width="200" classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
<param value="movie_name.swf" name="MOVIE" />
<param value="HIGH" name="QUALITY" />
<param value="TRUE" name="PLAY" />
<param value="TRUE" name="LOOP" />
<param value="#FFFFFF" name="BGCOLOR" /></object>
Is that a reason I'm having problems? I'm very confused with this. I just want my flash vids to show up.. lol -
Originally Posted by KameronK
I decided to go with .FLV video, like Google and YouTube on the web. You can get a HMTL tag when you upload your video to these sites, then you can imbed this code into your web page and at the same time change the resolution if you like. You can get the code from places like Imageshack and Photobucket, too.
TS -
In my case, the .swf file i used in the example (I just changed the name of my real file) is in the same directory as the html page on which I'm showing it, so no "path" is shown. Obviously if it was somewhere elsem I'd have to script the appropriate path. As far as the path for the .flv, I have always kep the .swf and related .flv in the same directory and the .swf points to the .flv.
I've now exhausted my extremely limited knowledge of this subject.
Good luck.
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