[Tomi]

Hey again,
i am wanting to put a video onto my website. I uploaded a WMV file but it only played in IE. My friend surgested flash, flash should work in most browsers. I can convert the video to flash but my only problem then is my users cant easly controle the video. Anyone got any ideas how to do this..?
im a flash noob so dont get to technical lol

thanks

[Tomi]

Or if anyone knows of a way i can make a WMV work in firefox that would be great.

[webmaster]

Upload it to youtube.com and read on their page how to add it to your page.

[Ash]

Gah how did I not think of that...

[Tomi]

i would but dont you get the youtube watermark? My site isnt like a little privet site its a community site and i want it to look profesional

[Tomi]

any ideas anyone, sorry about double post and i know this is a free service but i kinda need to get this sorted

ty

[Samuel Rounce]

You could compress it with the MPEG2 codec if you want playback across all browsers, or you could use the far superior Sorenson 3 + Quicktime format compression methods but users will need QT installed in order to view it. Flash isn't really needed in this situation, I certainly wouldn't use it as the video compression quality isn't that great and largely overrated.

[Tomi]

how would i go about compressing it with a MPEG 2 codec, i know almost nothing about codecs lol.. thanks for your help tho

[Tomi]

sorry again for double post but havent had a reply in a while and i need this done before i advertise my community wich i hope to do soon

[johneva]

Here this is a free program that codes your video to WMV if that will do ya. More people have WMP that Quicktime on there computer so it is more accessable to use WMV.

I think thats the right link.

I hate the microsoft website nothing is clear. Grrrr

To embed the video to your page checkout this thread.
http://www.devppl.com/forum/linking-to-video-clips-ie-quicktime-vt3265.html?highlight=

Checkout my website for the end result as I have a few vids on there done the same way.

[Tomi]

thanks, i know how to embed it into my site its just that a video on WMV format will only play when viewed in IE, so when people viewing in Firefox look, it wont play... im looking for a way to make my video play in both browsers.. im sure theres a way..

[johneva]

Yeah it does as I say checkout my site they are WMV files and they work on all browsers I have tested on (IE, Firefox, Opera and Netscape).

By using the code in the other thread I gave a link to.

[Tomi]

ahh thank you so much! i used the second code out of the two u posted because the first one didnt work TY!