Posted by donh on 06/20/06 09:36

Thank you for your many replies :-) I have to print this off as I dont
have Internet on the computer with my html program on at the moment, I
know I will need it :-)

Lust a little more info these are safety films I have been asked to run
for my work. They wont be going on the Internet each movie will live
on the hard drive. I don't know how much this makes a difference.
Having said that I guess I should say that the movies form part of a
public awareness thing that the powers at be would like to see in a
kiosk type display.

Any examples of code would be fantastic, especially of a player that
can be customised for size as the people will be using a touch screen.
Sorry I guess I should of said all this in the beginning.

Thanks again

Don


cwdjrxyz wrote:

> donh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This might be basic but could someone please point me in the right
> > direction on how to add a WMV movie to a web page.
> >
> > Any advice on the best way of doing this, as well as any things to be
> > weary of would be greatly appreciated.
>
> The most usual method today uses an ActiveX object with an embed path
> within it for most browsers other than IE that do not support ActiveX
> for the WMP without special third party plugins. However embed is
> invalid code, and never has been part of W3C html. This method works on
> most browsers, but gives many errors at the W3C validator. Most media
> such as wmv, wma, rm, swf, etc can now be made to work with only valid
> code, but you would never know this from looking at the code on sites
> of some of the largest media companies.
>
>
> However one can write a simple ordinary object for playing wmv that
> works on most modern browsers and that uses only valid code. See the
> code for http://www.cwdjr.info/broadbandMedia/formatsOB/cancanWMV.php .
> You can use the object for the player at any level from html 4.01
> through xhtml 1.1. The object points to a simple .wvx redirector file
> which points to the actual wmv file. If you need help with writing the
> .wvx file, I can post an example of one. Note a very high bit rate wmv
> for broadband is used here, so buffering might be very long on dialup.
> You use a bit rate for the intended audience, and some sites uses up to
> 3 bit rate wmvs for dialup, low end broadband, and high end broadband.
> On a special streaming server you often can encode the various bit
> rates together and use code to select the correct bit rate for the
> viewing browser. If you have only an ordinary html server, then you
> would have to offer a link for each bit rate to be selected by the
> user. Microsoft has a free Windows Media Encoder should you need to
> make wmv files at various rates from a mpeg video capture of a video.

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