OT: Putting Video On My Website

VideoDentist wrote on 2/4/2003, 7:01 AM

Everyone is so knowledgable and helpfull on this list I was hoping I could get some feedback on the best way to have a video play on my website.

So far I have downloaded windows media transcoder and formated my VV 7 minute avi file of patient interviews into a 12MB WMF . I then downloaded this onto my FTP site and it is supposedly on my website at http://www.tischlerdental.com/services/dental_implants.htm

The problem is I think it only shows up on my own computer.

Should I have a streaming host for this? I know there are a lot of ways to do this and a lot of players to use. Basically I would like the best quality and most universaly accepted method of having my patients view video on my site. How????

Comments

ibliss wrote on 2/4/2003, 7:52 AM
The site loads, but the video window doesn't play anything (for me anyway).
Paul_Holmes wrote on 2/4/2003, 8:23 AM
That's funny. I just went to the page, pressed the play button and it started, so it's not just your computer that plays it. I did notice when looking at the code in Notepad that you took my suggestion of setting autoplay to off, so the video only starts when you press play. If you want it to start playing automatically when the user browses to the page set autostart to True again.
ibliss wrote on 2/4/2003, 8:25 AM
I just tried it again and it worked perfectly.
Kevmiami wrote on 2/4/2003, 1:18 PM
Hi,

Very interested in how this works for you; would like to do something similar for my wife. Won't play video - I hear sound; using laptop running XP,with most current media player; through Corporate firewall. Will try at home on broadband on Thur. Good Luck!
rstein wrote on 2/4/2003, 1:50 PM
I get audio but no video.

It looks like you encoded with Windows Media 9. If you want the most of your potential audience to see and here this on your web site, I'd suggest that WMV 9 is not the way to go.

Bob.
shawnm wrote on 2/5/2003, 11:10 PM
>>If you want the most of your potential audience to see and here this on your web >>site, I'd suggest that WMV 9 is not the way to go.


Why do you say that?
snicholshms wrote on 2/6/2003, 1:08 AM
Just checked it out and it plays fine for me. I have WM9, XPPro.
Nice job on the video, too. You know, I have this tooth that's been bothering me...
HeeHee wrote on 2/6/2003, 1:29 AM
I can play it fine as well. Although, the sound during a couple interview were a bit metalic sounding.

FYI - I have two individual implants on top and bottom. My orignals were knocked out in a fight, but that's another story. Ahh, to be young again! Anyway, I've had them for over ten years now. I got them when they wer very new technology and have had next to no problems. The only problem I had was when a popcorn husk got wedged between the implant and my gumb and got infected. My dentist just cleaned it out and I got an antibiotic and all was fine. Since my gumbs around the implants have tightened up now, I haven't had a problem. I took a look at the implants on your page. A bit different than mine. Mine have an eye-hole towards the bottom of the posts that the bone grew through to hold in place. It looks like the new ones have threads to screw in.
Chienworks wrote on 2/6/2003, 8:01 AM
Shawnm, WMV9 may not be a good choice yet because very few people have it installed. The new codec download that allows WMV9 files to play on older versions of media player is spotty at best. Two of my computers play WMV9 files like slide shows ... a new still appears every few seconds instead of smooth video. The other computer won't even open them. WMV8 is much more widely useful and probably will be for many months.
shawnm wrote on 2/6/2003, 2:34 PM
Hey Chien,

Thanks for the clarification - however, I have not had the same problems you are describing, especially from the WM9 distribution standpoint (as the CODEC is downloaded for WMP users who don't already have it). Have you tried the Windows Media DL? They are a great resource for solving problems like the ones you are describing.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/wmtalk.aspx

Thanks,

Shawn