Video won't play on internet ??

will-3 wrote on 9/4/2003, 2:50 PM
I have a short clip I imported into my Front Page 2000 web and put on a page...

It plays fine in Preview but when I publish it to the web it won't play.

When I go to the website... the page downloads and displays... then Internet Explorer tells me in the status bar on the bottom that it is downloading the .wmv file... but, after it is done, the video doesn't start.

Any idea's? (This is my first attempt at putting video on the web.

Thanks for any help.

tmb

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Chienworks wrote on 9/4/2003, 2:52 PM
What's the link to your webpage?
will-3 wrote on 9/4/2003, 4:13 PM
I'm doing this page for someone.

The link is www.WhitneyRay.com

Let me know what you see.

I still have ton's to do, just wanted to do a quick experiment with putting video up. When I get done, there will several clips and more there.

Thanks - tmb
Chienworks wrote on 9/4/2003, 4:31 PM
It played perfectly well under MSIE 6.0, even starting automatically as soon as the entire video was downloaded. However, under Netscape i got a broken image icon. Dynsrc is only supported by MSIE so it should be avoided if possible; there are still lots of people using Mozilla based browsers, including the whole Linux crowd. Of course, Front Page uses it by default because Microsoft wants you to produce pages that only work in MSIE. *grrrrr*

If you do stay with that method, you might want to include the controls attribute so that viewers will see start, stop, pause, volume, and other controls. You can also add a regular src= attribute to load a still image for the non-MSIE users.

<img border="0" dynsrc="Video/Excerpts50s.wmv" controls start="fileopen" src=whitney.jpg>

Another good idea would be to put this inside a hyperlink to the media file so that the non-MSIE users can click on the still image to launch the video in a player.

<a href="Video/Experpts50s.wmv><img border="0" dynsrc="Video/Excerpts50s.wmv" controls start="fileopen" src=whitney.jpg></a>
will-3 wrote on 9/4/2003, 5:41 PM
Chineworks,

I'll try it after dinner or in the morning. Right now... H u n g r y !

Will