HTML Coding for Video Files

[Fred Atkinson]

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?

Regards,


Fred

 

[Alan J. Flavell]

Can anyone tell me how to embed a video vile in a Web page and

________________________________________________^^^^ hmmm...

have the video come up full screen (without having to click on it)
when the video starts?

I can heartily recommend the Flashblock extension for moz/firefox
as a defence against this kind of nonsense, without removing the
possibility of seeing what's on offer at one's own discretion.

(In the event that Fred finds a way around flashblock, I'm sure the
flashblock developers will be pleased to work out a way to defeat that
too.)

However, I've no idea where some authors get their crap code for
dealing with the flashblock situation. Some of them presume to inform
me that my browser is incapable of displaying Flash - right next to
the flashblock button which would start the presentation; others tell
me that I *must* ("must"???) upgrade to the latest version of the
Flash plugin, despite the fact that I already *have* the latest
version of the Flash plugin. It's almost enough to convince a chap of
the equivalence of Flash with GIGO. Shame, because there /are/ some
good uses for it.

(Have I been trolled?)

 

[David Dorward]

others tell me that I *must* ("must"???) upgrade to the latest version of
the Flash plugin

My favourite is being told that I can (and must) get Flash 8 from some URL,
going to that URL and being told that Flash 7 is the latest version
available for my platform.

 

[Spartanicus]

Can anyone tell me how to embed a video vile in a Web page

http://www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/embed.htm#audiovideo

 

[Neredbojias]

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?

And if the visitor is on dialup, he/she stares at a blank screen for how
long...?

You've probably had better ideas in your life.

 

[cwdjrxyz]

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.

 

[Alan J. Flavell]

My favourite is being told that I can (and must) get Flash 8 from
some URL, going to that URL and being told that Flash 7 is the
latest version available for my platform.

I was forgetting one site which had been *so* clever that not only did
it tell me my browser was incapable of flash, it even somehow
suppressed the flashblock button which would have let me play the
flash presentation if I had wanted to.

I suppose, in the interests of knowledge, I *should* have investigated
what he was doing wrong. But I'm afraid I just shrugged my shoulders
and left. The site had evidently been so memorable that I needed a
while to even remember that it had existed, and I really can't say
where it was now. Ho hum.