Embedding video in web pages

[paul]

You can find most of the FAQ about embedding video on web page through this at cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php#top

[harry]

a nice tool used for inserting video into web pages, not to worry for complex code required for embedding video, the tool will do it for you.

Paul, but what you think about code;is it trustworthy. As site have mentioned that " No warranty is implied or extended with respect to its( Embedded HTML Media Generator) accuracy or utility".
Has anyone ever used this tool or something similar to it? How effective it was?

[kev woodman]

I had a play with this and it looks ok Harry,

The Flash button produces code that is almost identical to the 'publish' button in Flash itself. It uses both

[sanderson]

After looking at the site, it doesn't seem to be fraud. And it's a .edu site of California University, ranking 8 in Google. I didn't like the idea that much as you will need to visit that page again and again to upload any kind of file. And there is no gurantee that you will get to see your videos as they should be. I tried once but then it started asking to download this plugin and all, then I didn't feel to go along with it.

[kev woodman]

I think you've got the wrong end of the stick sandy - you don't use the site to upload a file.

All the page does is generate the HTML tags necessary to embed video in a page. Once it's generated the code you copy and paste that into your Web page and away you go. I guess they developed it because

[sanderson]

Ah! you are right kew. I mean to say to generate the code. And you will get many free scripts from the web. So instead of doing it there one can do those same things at his own pc. Right? So there won't be any plugin issues.

[kev woodman]

Well there might be an issue on the client side with plug-ins e.g. if they don't have Flash.

That's just one of the things you can't control with Web design/dev.

Just to recap this service - all you need to do is write your Web page and then if you want to embed a piece of video but can't be arsed to type out the code you can use this site to automagically generate it for you. Just slap the resulting code in your code and you're away.

Obviously you need to know enough HTML to create the page and know where to stick the code but then everybody knows that don't they

[harry]

Kev, what you think about the code? can we modify it or can we change its attributes/parameters for changing location of video window or its size or anything....

[kev woodman]

You can change a few things.

If you have a look at the code some of it you can get rid of straight away - I just did a quick test for a Flash file and the only code you really need is this:

    OBJECT classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000'
        codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0'
        width="320" height="240">
<param name='movie' value="http://servername/path/to/media.file">
        <param name='quality' value="high">
        <param name='bgcolor' value='#FFFFFF'>
        <param name='loop' value="true">
       <EMBED src="http://servername/path/to/media.file" quality='high' bgcolor='#FFFFFF' width="320"
        height="240" loop="true" type='application/x-shockwave-flash'
        pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash'>
        </EMBED>
        </OBJECT>

the stuff between the

[harry]

Thanks kev,
So nice of you. I know you will be always there with helping hands....