citizensen said:
I would like to incorporate one browse... button in webpage and that
will search and select a video file ( avi, mpg., .dat, or . mov ) and
play and while pressing another button would play the file in a pop-up
window or in the same page. Please help me.
Have a look at my media pages that can be reached at
http://www.cwdjr.info/media/playersRoot.php .
Using media is one of the most complicated things you can do on web
pages, because there are many formats, many players, and many codes
that can be used. Streaming media is best for the web. First you have
to define your target audience or audiences. Thus some commercial sites
provide bit rates suited for dialup, lower broadband, and higher
broadband. Video for dialup is not very good, and the image must be
kept quite small. Some sites automatically select the best stream for
the type of connection detected. The best single formats to use for
streaming are Microsoft formats such as wma and wmv , because there are
more WMPs on computers than any other. It is gooid also to provide a
Real format stream, because it is just as good as the Microsoft one,
and many people have a Real player, but not a WMP. Both Microsoft and
Real have free encoders for their formasts that you can download. Also
note that you may need to set some mime types on your server as
discussed in the reference I quoted.
