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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 11/24/97 11:47
Fred Atkinson wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to embed a video vile in a Web page and
> have the video come up full screen (without having to click on it)
> when the video starts?
Unless the viewing browser is on very high speed broadband, you do not
want a video coming up full screen. For slower connections you will
either have to encode the video at about 30 kbps or less for dialup for
streaming without undue delay. Such a video looks bad enough when very
tiny and is nearly unviewable at full stream. Even if you encode the
video at 2mbps, full screen is usually too large even with a 2.5 or
larger mbps broadband connection. Unless you are aiming at a specific
network with known properties, it is best to not autostart the video,
but use a button to start instead. For example, the WMP and Real player
objects have parameters for start buttons and autostart or not. For
those who decide to start and find the wait for buffering is too long
for their connection, it is nice to provide a downlink for the video so
it can be downloaded at night when the computer is not busy.
Examples of how I embed audio and video can be found at
http://www.cwdjr.info/media/playersRoot.php . Although I use recent
html coding here, the methods will work just as well for even an html
4.01 transitional page.
Really high quality full screen streaming video would require a
bandwidth greater than for even the fastest broadband connections
available in most areas. Consider that a commercial dual layer DVD of a
2 hour movie may contain about 8 GB. Trying to transmit 8 GB in 2 hours
is far from practical for most situations now. And the new HD DVDs may
require about 3 times the bandwidth as for the present standard
definition ones. And the movie industry has a project set up for
standards for digital projectors in movie houses with large screens.
This requires a bandwidth much greater than even HDTV to approach the
quality of the best 70 mm film movies.
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