Video Code

[allenrichard]

Can anyone open this link and copy and paste to this reply the correct code to have the video's play. It downloads first. I am having trouble with my code and want this exact way of playing video. Thank you. www.intocombat.com/videos.php
This is my video page. www.spindelsportsacademy.com/videoclips.htm

[YvetteKuhns]

http://www.realnetworks.com/resources/samples/embedded.html
Here are different ways to embed video in web pages.

[allenrichard]

Wow, thanks. That is a great site. I actually read a post by either you or Rick E that mentions Powweb does not stream video, but plays it via HTTP. Is there a thread that talks about what the difference between HTTP and streaming is. Thanks for your help. Allen

[YvetteKuhns]

We spoke about video and music streaming on some threads. I know that some news sites stream video. Viewers do NOT download the video. They click a link and it streams the video like m3u links play mp3s. You don't actually download the song.

[gandm]

<embed src="video/beg_of_sq_wkout_1.WMV" width="320" height="285" class="pictureframe" autostart="true" loop="true"></embed>

Learn to use the View Source button.

Set the height to be about 40-60 more than the video height.

I'm sorry, it looks like you have already implemented this code. You may want to check your HTML, however, because I saw some un-closed tages on one of the videos.

[allenrichard]

Thanks for the reply. If you saw some unclosed tags on one of the video's, it probably is on all the video's as once I entered the correct html that was copied and pasted from a post here, I naturally copied and pasted the code to all my video's. Can you tell me which tag is unclosed so I might correct that. Thank you.

[Rick_E]

...Powweb does not stream video, but plays it via HTTP. Is there a thread that talks about what the difference between HTTP and streaming is.

With streaming media from a media server, there is two-way communication between the player and the server. This allows the server to adjust to a slower speed streaming speed as needed. Streaming media gives the best possible user experience.

HTTP streaming is a one-way progressive download at a predetermined speed. If the network gets busy and can't keep up, the user's player goes on pause until it can rebuffer and catch up. Webmasters usually encode and offer the video at two speeds for the user to choose from, about 30kbps for dialup users and 250kbps for broadband users.

At a web host like Powweb, HTTP progressive download is the only option.

There's a more complete explanation of the differences between media server streaming and web server HTTP progressive download streaming in this post. http://forum.powweb.com/showpost.php?p=360755&postcount=5

[Rick_E]

Can anyone open this link and copy and paste to this reply the correct code to have the video's play. It downloads first. I am having trouble with my code and want this exact way of playing video. Thank you. www.intocombat.com/videos.php
This is my video page. www.spindelsportsacademy.com/videoclips.htm
Yes, as mentioned above, in that page, the video is playing with this code<embed src="video/beg_of_sq_wkout_1.WMV" width="320" height="285"
class="pictureframe" autostart="true" loop="true"></embed>

[Rick_E]

On your page the video plays for me OK after a short buffering delay. I notice you encoded the video at 340kbps so for anyone using dialup the video will download before playing. You may want to consider encoding a second version at 30kbps for dialup users.

I do notice a slight typo at the end of the line you are using to play the videos.<embed src="http://spindelsportsacademy.com/videoclips/falynsummer05.wmv"
width="320" height="285" align="center"
style="border-style:solid; border-color:#808080;" <noembed>should be<embed src="http://spindelsportsacademy.com/videoclips/falynsummer05.wmv"
width="320" height="285" align="center"
style="border-style:solid; border-color:#808080;">After the <embed> tag, there is sometimes placed <noembed> and </noembed> tags with code placed between them that executes only if the <embed> tag fails.

[allenrichard]

"I notice you encoded the video at 340kbps so for anyone using dialup the video will download before playing. You may want to consider encoding a second version at 30kbps for dialup users."
Thanks Rick. You saved the day. :D How can I code the 30kbps for dial up. I don't see this is the code?

[raglanr]

Hi Yvette, I believe you may be talking about what I am looking for. I would like to stream a one hour daily TV news programme from a Caribbean island on my website but have absolutely no clue about what is required from my end and the TV News station. I have watched such programmes via Real Player and would like to provide this service for our members. Can you advise? Thanks.

[YvetteKuhns]

http://ils.unc.edu/video/how.html
Read last paragraph to understand true video streaming.
You can stream Real Media (rm) files served by a Real Video server.

http://www.vitalstream.com/streaming/index.html
Try playing the video in the upper right corner of the screen.

http://www.wimpyplayer.com
Automatic streaming media for your website. See video (or mp3) player.

http://www.rich-media-project.com
Serve video using Macromedia FLV file format and audio using MP3 file format. The solution is low cost as it does not require a specialized streaming server but only a web server with PHP.