Cant get videos to play on the web

voodoo1694 wrote on 11/30/2003, 1:54 PM

I cant get Vegas to render files that are playable on the web. I use frontpage 2003 and tried rendering my movie files in Vegas to AVI, MOV, MPEG, etc. files and none of them work. Whenever I drag them into Frontpage, they just show up as that little "unrecognized file" picture. However, when i use Adobe Premiere to render files, they are recognized and play fine. What the heck is going on?

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cheroxy wrote on 11/30/2003, 2:25 PM

I did the same thing with a video that I saved as avi and windows media player 9. Both showed up as a block with a red x like you said. Even though that means nothing is linked on a web document, it is there. I went to the preview tab and both videos showed up. If your's isn't, check preferences as to how you have the video playing. You can have something like: when page is opened, millisecond delayed, upon mouseover, when clicked, etc.

I have mine as when page loads and it showed up instantly when I clicked the preview tab.
Carson

voodoo1694 wrote on 11/30/2003, 2:35 PM

Hey Carson. Actually im not getting the red X, im getting the little square circle triangle box where it knows something is there but cant load it. Even when i try uploading it to my website, it does the same thing. I right click on it to "show picture" but it doesnt play. I checked all my settings and im pretty good with frontpage so im not sure whats going on. Thanks.

SonyEPM wrote on 11/30/2003, 4:24 PM

Voodoo, you shouldn't be having this trouble. I just tried rendering a wmv file and it loads fine in Frontpage, so I bet this is something fairly simple.

What version of Vegas?

What are your exact render settings in Vegas?

From your description, it sounds like a codec issue, but we need some detail.

Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/30/2003, 5:01 PM

Is there any reason why you don't render the files to the WIndows Media Video format? That is the recommended format to render to if you want it to play on the web via the Windows Media Player.

Did you try that format?

If you want to make sure the video is playable with the largest majority of PC's with the Windows Media Player I would recommend you choose the version 8 format over the version 9. Version 8 seems to be backwards compatible with older players (version 7 etc) whereas version 9 is not (in my experience). Although my preference is for version 9 as that gives the best quality.