Video

[fanaddicts]

Can someone direct me to where I can get info on streaming video through Frontpage 2000 please?

[Rick_E]

Yes you can convert your video or audio files to one of the streaming formats such as Windows Media, Real, or Quicktime. There are free or almost free encoders provided for this purpose.

The free Windows Media Encoder can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/create.aspx

The free Real Producer for encoding RealMedia is at
http://www.realnetworks.com/products/producer/index.html

and the Pro Version of the QuickTime player, which will encode streaming QuickTime files is at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/

Performance:

You would get improved performance by hosting your streaming media on a specialized media server, but for low-traffic sites you can host your streaming media files on your web site and use http streaming.

Many people encode a broadband version at around 250 kbps and also a dialup version at 28 kbps. Obviously, the broadband version will have better quality and frame rates.

[Rick_E]

You can simply link to your video file and it will start playing using the user's default player for that type of file.

You can also embed the video in a web page by placing the cursor where you want the video to appear then in the HTML inserting this tag...

<embed src="yourfile.wmv" width="360" height="285" align="center" style="border: 2px solid #808080; "><noembed>Windows Media Player 7 or newer is required.</noembed>

I usually discourage inserting the Windows Media ActiveX player into the web page because some people don't allow ActiveX to run because of security concerns and some browsers don't support ActiveX.