best way to stRRReam video?

[willstein]

currently I'm streaming video via embedding it as .wmv
(as can be seen here)

What's the best way to embed it?
Apparently some computers cant load this video.
What's the most universally accepted method where macs, and win can view same.

[yoda313]

a vcd in mpg format.

Or divx.

[willstein]

mpg format? is that something to be exported from premiere? any guides for best way to do it.

simly embed it in the page in the same manner or is there a better way to throw it in there.

[thecoalman]

Try this:

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer1" width=xxx height=xxx
     classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
     codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,02,902" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">
                                                
<PARAM NAME="filename" VALUE="YOUR FILE NAME HERE">
<PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">
<EMBED type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
SRC="YOUR FILE NAME HERE"
width=xxx
height=xxx
AutoStart=true>
</EMBED> 
</OBJECT>

Change the xxx to match the values of your video or whatever you want it to diplay as. The param values are variable, there's additional ones too. You can look them up. That's more of a coding issue than a machine issue. The object and embed tags do the same thing but for different bowsers. Embed is for IE, object is for FF. It's the same for flash animations.

The best thing to do is provide an alternative link directly to the file.

As far as machine compatibility most will play a WMV, the only other real alternative is mpeg1 but at the expense of file size and quality.

[willstein]

coaman, the code you provided looks pretty much like the code I already am using.

I'm just getting some complaints that some can't see it (like older computer or macs).

Is there any more universal way?
I guess eventually I better move to flash.

[thecoalman]

coaman, the code you provided looks pretty much like the code I already am using.

If the link you posted above is your's then no it's not, it doesn't have the object tag whivh is required by Firefox.

I'm just getting some complaints that some can't see it (like older computer or macs).

As I said you could use mpeg1 which should play fine on any machine but that has larger files with less quality. That doesn't necessarily mean the code will work though. The above code using wmv will work with probably about 95% of the people that visit your site if not more. Again provide a link directly to the file....

Your dealing with two issues 1. Is there browser compatible with the code? and 2. Do they have the software/codecs to play the file? If the answer to either of them is no then it's not going to work.

I wouldn't suggest flash as an alternative, that too requires that it be installed.

[willstein]

Hmm.

I tried this:

The following video may take a few minutes to load on your computer.

Please be patient.

Filmed: October 22nd, 2005
[12 minutes, 44 seconds] [21.8 MB]

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<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer1" width=320 height=300
     classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
     codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,02,902" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">
                                               
<PARAM NAME="../images/video/lwilson/lwilson.wmv" VALUE="../images/video/lwilson/lwilson.wmv">
<PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="loop" VALUE="false">
<PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">
<EMBED type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
SRC="../images/video/lwilson/lwilson.wmv"
width=320
height=300
AutoStart=true>
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Video Not Working?
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And I got the following output:

 classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,02,902" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">

--nonworkingplayer--
--nonworkingplayer--
--nonworkingplayer--
--nonworkingplayer--






SRC="../images/video/lwilson/lwilson.wmv"
width=320
height=300
AutoStart=true>

[thecoalman]

<PARAM NAME="../images/video/lwilson/lwilson.wmv" VALUE="../images/video/lwilson/lwilson.wmv">

needs to be

<PARAM NAME="filename" VALUE="../images/video/lwilson/lwilson.wmv">

[willstein]

Using the following code:

The following video may take a few minutes to load on your computer.

Please be patient.

Filmed: October 23rd, 2005
[7 minutes, 55 seconds] [13.5 MB]

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<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer1" width=320 height=300
     classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
     codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,02,902" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">
                                               
<PARAM NAME="filename" VALUE="../images/video/ynishi/ynishi.wmv">
<PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="loop" VALUE="false">
<PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">
<EMBED type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
SRC="../images/video/ynishi/ynishi.wmv"
width=320
height=300
AutoStart=true>
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Video Not Working?
Download Video Here

I got similiar results.


edit: I added:

<PARAM NAME="loop" VALUE="false">

Could that be causing some problem?

[thecoalman]

I just tried it here and it works perfectly, the only thing I changed is the source URL for the video from the code you pasted above.

http://www.nepadigital.com/test.html

It's the exact same code. It works in both IE and firefox as tested by me and probably many others. I don't know what to tell you but you can look around the net and find that sippet of code everywhere, it's the most widely used since it works in practically every browser.

[ybeard]

Perhaps using an iron???

[willstein]

I tried

http://www.nepadigital.com/test.html

in both firefox and IE and it crashed my browser...
can a third person try them out for me?

[Cornucopia]

Perhaps using an iron???

I thought maybe a teapot and tongs.

Scott

[willstein]

Perhaps using an iron???

I thought maybe a teapot and tongs.

Scott

am i missing something here?

[Jim44]

am i missing something here?

An "r" in your subject line.

Buncha comedians.....

Jim - though the same thing, actually

[willstein]

hahahah im SURE that came from always logging on to steam to play counterstrike..

hmm.


ANYWAY!!!!
I'm getting alot of complaints that the video cant be viewd on different machines.

one user complains that audio comes through, but video is only a blank green screen.

could that lead anywhere?

[Cornucopia]

The file seems to be ok, but I had trouble with the embedding.

Looked at the source code for the page, copied the path to the clip, pasted in the address and it played fine.

Note: Audio WMA v9.1 (not all users have the .1 update)
Video WMV v8 (why not use v9, it looks so much better?)

The "ROACXplayer" (spelling from memory??) is a nonstandard name...

There are other methods to embed/link, maybe you should try one of those.

Scott