Looking for a Way to Play Video on a Page
Like others, I need to play video on a web page for clients. To this end I have been trawling the web for players and solutions.
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The first decision is the format.
The answer is Flash. You cannot guarantee that everyone has the plugin but statistics have shown that Flash is the most likely over Quicktime or Windows Media. Statistics show that most web users will have the Flash plug-in installed. Other web developers have made this decison too.
Then how to encode edited video for Flash
Edited video can be out put in a number of formats, depending on your platform and toolset, but your goal is to be able to import into the Adobe Video Encoder, which will deliver the video out in Flash Video format (.FLV or .F4V). The software comes with Flash and is currently in version CS4.
Getting the file onto the web server
To get the video onto the web server, we are unlikely to be able to use the CMS/Edit system to make the upload. The problem here is file size. A video of say 20mb, could take 15 minutes to upload and the server is likely to time-out before the upload finishes. Indeed the javascript used to upload will also fail after a certain time. It may be possible to use a JAVA uploader. The answer is likely to be in giving editors an FTP account and uploading that way.
Delivering on a web page
The video needs to show on the page 'wrapped' in a player - thus providing the user controls. There are various options for this but
Themost popular ones are:
Both of these are free for non-commercial use.
Icing on the cake
All very fine but ... you can also use some other javascript libraries to deliver the video in a popup box and PlanetOzh have a comprehensive lsting of all the options for lightbox clones - some of which will handle video.
Posted on 07 Nov around 6pm
Tags: Ideas javascript flash video