I have generated HTTP Live Streaming videos in Compressor and have been given this code to upload to my Freeway Pro site. Can anyone please help me as to where I paste this code (exactly please - I am terrible with coding)
Copy just the line of code within <video … to the clipboard. In Freeway, choose Insert / Markup Item from the main menu. Paste that video code in the dialog that appears. Okay the dialog, and you will see a 100px square box centered on your page with a [H] in its upper-left corner. Change its dimensions to suit the video and position it where you want the video to appear. (You will only ever see a blank box on screen in the Freeway design view.)
Next, apply the Upload Stuff Action to that same page, and in the “With HTML” section of the Action interface, choose your exported m3u8 file as one of the files to upload along with the rest of the site. Preview in a browser, and you should see your video.
Walter
On Nov 17, 2011, at 8:07 AM, scoutdesign wrote:
I have generated HTTP Live Streaming videos in Compressor and have been given this code to upload to my Freeway Pro site. Can anyone please help me as to where I paste this code (exactly please - I am terrible with coding)
I had to look up the m3u8 extension. According to this article, the .m3u8 file is likely to be a file that references the other video files.
Are there any other files that are included with the video - ogg, m4v, mp4? If you do, you’ll need to upload those too using the Upload Stuff Action as Walter described. You may have to check this file to ensure that it points to the video files correctly.
The reson there is likely to be more than one video file is down to various browser writers supporting their preferred video format - most citing various patent restrictions for doing so.
Thanks Walt and Paul, I will try this later. Walt, will the videos play without uploading them first (locally) or do they need to be on the server before FW will see them.
Regardless of whether you place the files on the server, and view them from there, or use Freeway’s local preview functions (Preview in Freeway, Preview in Browser), the files all have to be in the correct places. The Upload Stuff Action will put them where they belong. You should not need to do anything else manually, and it shouldn’t matter where the site is being viewed. All you are doing here is requesting files, and Freeway is smart enough to always use relative paths, so they work anywhere. As Paul mentioned, you do have to worry about the m3u8 file – whether or not it uses relative paths internally to reference the various movie formats will have a direct impact on this working at all.
(The hard exception to this is QuickTime Streaming, where you actually need a QuickTime Streaming Server to handle the rtsp:// protocol, and you can’t see anything in a local preview ever.)
Walter
On Nov 17, 2011, at 9:39 AM, scoutdesign wrote:
Thanks Walt and Paul, I will try this later. Walt, will the videos play without uploading them first (locally) or do they need to be on the server before FW will see them.