AVI, wmv, movie problems

[jarigo2]

I have made a small movie with a digital camera and edited it in ArcSoft's videoimpression program. It saves as an AVI.

When I upload this movie (which plays fine on my hard drive) to my powweb server, the movie will not play on internet explorer through my website.

I was told to rename it to movie.wmv rather than movie.AVI. After renaming it, it doesn't play on netscape or internet explorer.

The movie plays fine from my hard drive through windows media player and quicktime.

Any clues here?
the movie is online at www.scooterthecocker.com/movies.html

thanks,
John

[joshuamc]

First, if the movie is an AVI, leave it as a .avi. The way you have it now is you are linking directly to a .wmv.

1. This will not stream the video but rather open the computers default player to try and play the file.
2. The movie will not play because it is .avi and my windows media player thinks it is a .wmv therefore not using the correct codec to play.

If you wish to stream the video, check out this code generator for enabling embedded video:
http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php

[jarigo2]

What a great website, thank you so much!

It works great


John

[jarigo2]

I figured out how to get the movie to work, but I realized that it is running through quicktime.

Can a few people click on the movie link to see if it works. I get it to work on my home PC, both IE and Netscape, and it works on this computer which is a mac running safari. Im curious what will happen if someone doesn't have quicktime installed.

www.scooterthecocker.com/movies.html

thanks - any advice is also welcome

John

[Wyndra]

Seems to work fine. (Ran in Quicktime)
Very cute dog!

[Rick_E]

>>>Im curious what will happen if someone doesn't have quicktime installed.>>>

The movie wouldn't play until they installed QuickTime (But most people have QuickTime.)

It's commom to offer both Windows Media and QuickTime versions. Also, it's common to offer a 28kbps version for dialup and a 250kbps version for broadband. That's four versions total :)

[jarigo2]

ok great,
thanks

[GOPGuyCA]

I can't get that HTML making thing to work for me! I have a video in WMA format but it just doesn't work, neither will any mp3s.

[Rick_E]

>>>I have a video in WMA format but it just doesn't work>>>

I believe wma is for Windows Media Audio only and not for videos, but I may be wrong.

Embed a video or audio file in a web page by inserting the following tag into your HTML code where you want the player to appear. To stream properly the file must be one of the streaming formats such as QuickTime, RealMedia or Windows Media. I'll post more information in the next message.

<embed src="yourfile.wmv">

(Substitute your domain name.)

This method of embedding the media file is preferred over other methods because it does not use an ActiveX control.

[Rick_E]

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/

To embed the media file in your web page insert the following tag into the HTML where you want the player to appear.

<embed src="yourfile.wmv">

This method of embedding the media file is preferred over others because it does not use an ActiveX control. Here's a fancier version that sets the size, border and alignment of the player.

<embed src="yourfile.wmv" width="320" height="285" align="center" style="border: 2px solid #808080; "><noembed>Media Player is required.</noembed>

Performance:

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.

[damber]

I was just watching your "lovin" video of the dogs. Very cute indeed. Now were those cockers playin' or lovin' in that video :-) ???

I notice the "scooters first snow" AVI file is 4.3Meg for 11 seconds! and quality is really poor compared to the wmv file you have for the aptly titled "Love at first site video". I'd suggest converting the avi file to wmv and re-posting it on your website.

Are you going to get scooter into "Flyball"? I once filmed an Albuquequere flyball team. It was pretty interesting as I'd never seem it before. http://www.emuvideo.com/videos.php?page=flyball