Inserting a movie

Can someone explain me how? Have tried it in all different formats. Won’t show up (FF and Safari). Is there a trick? Thank you.


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Obvousy the only way to make it work is HTML 5. I think it’s on browsers side…


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Difficult with that short info, but I tend to say it could be as well a server-site (mis)setting (MIME type) or even wrong codecs on the video-files.

Exactly for this video woes I once totally switched off the self-hosting (which would be anyway masochistic by the flood of my videos) and use vimeo today (just as a side-step) and clients I try to convince, that it would be better to open a youtube account (but I know that this is not always possible).

What usually always worked (nearby) for me was SublimeVideo in combination with Miro Videoconverter to set the proper codecs.

Cheers

Thomas


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There are two fundamentally different ways to put a video on a Web page. The first is to leverage a plug-in – either QuickTime or Flash. The second (and newer and more buzzword-compliant) is to use a Video container. Video is a new tag, introduced in HTML5, which allows a video file to be inserted in a page, just like a photograph or other “native” content. Unfortunately, the promise of this tag (universal video for all!) was thwarted by adolescent standards-misunderstandings on the part of the browser developers, and there is no single format which will play everywhere for everyone.

To do the QuickTime route, simply change your page output level to XHTML or HTML4, and drag a video of any QuickTime-compatible format onto the page. Freeway will generate all of the JavaScript and object code to make the video appear correctly on any computer that has the QuickTime plug-in installed. Those who don’t have it will be prompted to install it.

To do the Flash thing (and realize – you are cutting off the fastest-growing part of your audience when you choose this option) then encode you video in FLV format, then use the FLV Player Action (bundled in Freeway since version 4 or 5) to set up its playback area. You will use the Action tool to draw a box where the video will appear, and then use the Actions palette to choose the FLV file you encoded earlier. Freeway will again write all of the code.

To do the Video thing, you can just set your page to HTML5 or XHTML5, and drag in your video (encoded in H.264/AAC MPEG 4 format, like a boss) and you’re done. But if you want people to see it in Firefox or older versions of Chrome, you have to do another step or two. Back in your favorite transcoding software, you must create two additional formats: WebM and Ogg/Theora. Back in Freeway, click once on your video element, and look in the Inspector. In the Output tab (third from the left) you will see Source 2 and Source 3 pickers. Use those to choose your WebM and Ogg versions, respectively. Freeway will create the necessary fallback options in your page code. For extra points, include a JPEG screenshot of the video to set the scene – maybe include a big triangle and Click to Play.

There are many benefits to this format that include near-universal playback compatibility with mobile devices, so you should definitely use this format if you worry about the future. If you are developing a site to be used only on an intranet visited by aging Windows XP machines, then you will want to ensure that the IT department has installed QuickTime, and use that method (or Flash – if you’re desperate) instead.

Walter

On Oct 17, 2013, at 5:55 AM, GTPeter wrote:

Obvousy the only way to make it work is HTML 5. I think it’s on browsers side…


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