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How can I post a video for people to see without using YouTube?
WunderCade:
Yes, you can delete anything you post on Youtube through your My Account options.
unclet:
Neverending Project
Thanks for the information. Let me play around with this stuff this weekend and see what I can do. I will need some help converting the file, I will send you a PM once I confirm exactly which video I would like to use. I might try to take another video with better lighting .... but not sure yet. Anyway, I have little league baseball to coach tonight and tomorrow night so probably will not have a chance to play around with this until the weekend.
A few things though ...
1) It might be nice to see the old school way of doing this without using the script.
2) Is the script supported by the Mozilla browser ..... it only mentions Internet Explorer?
3) If I download the script to use it then I simply have to indicate where the location of the script file is using the "src=" parameter I guess .... correct?
WunderCade
Thanks for the info ..... good to know
DeLuSioNal29:
By the way, Youtube.com imports .mpg files perfectly from a digital camera. My videos that I posted were taken by my Sony Cybershot. I didn't have to convert anything. I simply went to my account in youtube.com clicked on "upload" and then typed in a description. Then I clicked "browse" to point to the file on my hard drive. It uploaded it and when it was done it was on youtube.com.
Then in my forum post I use the command [ y o u t u b e ] (cut and paste youtube link from the address bar on top - where your video is) [ / y o u t u b e ]
Voila! Hassle free stuff.
And by the way, I had a few revisions to my arcade unit video, so I easily deleted the old videos and then uploaded new ones. So, yes, you can delete them at will. :)
~ DeLuSioNaL
Neverending Project:
--- Quote from: unclet on February 14, 2008, 12:31:49 pm ---A few things though ...
1) It might be nice to see the old school way of doing this without using the script.
2) Is the script supported by the Mozilla browser ..... it only mentions Internet Explorer?
3) If I download the script to use it then I simply have to indicate where the location of the script file is using the "src=" parameter I guess .... correct?
--- End quote ---
1) 'ere you go:
--- Code: ---<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="320"
HEIGHT="240" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="sample.mov">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true">
<EMBED SRC="sample.mov" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" AUTOPLAY="true"
CONTROLLER="true"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
--- End code ---
The OBJECT element is for Internet Exploere with ActiveX. The EMBED element is for Mozilla browsers. Basically, broswers that understand the OBJECT element use that, others use the EMBED. Change the "sample.mov" to the path to your movie, and the width/height tags as necessary. Set the AUTOPLAY and CONTROLLER to your preference as well. Everything else should remain as shown.
2) Yes, see above.
3) Correct again. I guess it is designed to make it simpler for a web deisgner - using a script to do repetitive tasks.
Using the above method will show the movie with the first frame in the viewer (unless AUTOPLAY is set to true, in which case it will begin playing as soon as it can). A lot of people use a poster movie - basically an empty movie file with the poster frame that you want to display. When the viewer clicks on the poster, the movie will load and begin to play.
To do the poster frame setup, you would save the first frame of the movie as a separate file with a ".mov" extension. This would go in the src parameter. Then you would add an HREF parameter pointing to the actual movie (href="
") both in the OBJECT and EMBED tags.
I hope this isn't too confusing. Probably too much information here, but it may benefit others too.
unclet:
Thanks for the detail ..... I need to play around with this stuff to see if I can get it to work ...
Saint has donated the web space I use for my jukebox and arcade webpages, so I was wondering if this video of mine is located on saint's webspace then will it cause him (or the BYOAC community) any grief when multiple people are downloading the video? I do not want to cause any slow downs and such ......