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Posted by The Starmaker on 01/03/07 17:16
cwdjrxyz wrote:
>
> The Starmaker wrote:
> > I'm fooling around with html/css
> >
> >
> > How do I get those scrolling bars to disapear?
> > I just want the video to be centered in the background image.
> > http://pw1.netcom.com/~starmaker/YT/YT6.html
> >
> >
> > Maybe there's a better way...
> > If there is a better way then,
> > what keywords should I be looking up?
>
> You are linking to a file on the site with the video, and if it ever
> fails, so will your video. Actually what you are linking to is a rather
> complicated flash construct which is a combination of a .flv
> movie(often used by the flash people), and other elements such as
> logos. I was able to get the flv movie file from the Opera cache after
> playing the movie. The .flv file may be downloaded at
> http://www.cwdjr.info/temp/opr00V8T.flv . The movie is a wide screen
> format and has no scroll bars. This is not very useful alone for
> websites, but you can download a free flv player from
> http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated . It is
> possible to convert a flv to many other video formats that are more
> useful on websites, such as wmv. I found a program that will do this at
> http://www.topvideopro.com/guide/convert_flv.htm . You get a watermark
> unless you pay for the program, which I did not. The .wmv is at
> http://www.cwdjr.info/temp/opr00V8T.wmv . You may see it embedded on a
> plain page at http://www.cwdjr.info/temp/NGmovie.html . I did not try
> to add your background. The player is centered on your page. I think
> you may have to crop off a bit of the left side of your background
> image a PaintShop or the like so that the black box in it is centered
> on the page. It may be difficult to get this right when screen widths
> are different without using some rather elaborate script to detect
> screen width and write corrections for css.
>
> The new WMP 11 has a bug when you use a video that is of smaller width
> than you call for in the object code. On all non-IE browsers I have
> tested, the width of the video gets stretched to fill the width called
> for in the object, but the height does not. The IE6 response is normal.
> I don't know if and when Microsoft will correct this. In the meantime
> you either should make the width in the object code the same as the
> actual widith of the video(320px in this case), or you need to
> re-encode the wmv at the larger width you want and likely require for
> your background image.
>
> I will leave the mentioned files up a few days, so download any soon
> that might be of use to you.
Thanks, I will look at your html file after work and fool around with
it.
I was just trying some test with linking video from other websites for
the
time being like
http://pw1.netcom.com/~starmaker/YT/YT3.htm
(click the embedded button)
I wasn't looking to embed my own videos right now...my problem was not
how to
embedded a video into my webpage but just the "centering problem" of the
bg image.
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