Video

[fuzz]

After going thru the Video Embed Tutorial here theres still a few things bugging me:

When you have a video embeded on a site, can you...

...hide just the controls? Windows media player is playing the video and hidden=true hide everything including the video itself and controller=false dosnt work.
...Use your own controls? (graphics on the site)?
...place the video in the middle of the page, <div align center> only affects horisontal, not vertical, so i had to set a table height to 100% and then valign to center, better way?
...change the size of the video, width & height only affects the controls.
...send the viewer to a new page when the video played thru?

Also, when using fullscreen mode i always get a scrollbar to the right, even without content, so i had to make the the same color as background to hide, whats wrong?

Thx.

[gil davis]

The answers to all of your questions need to be specific for Windows MediaPlayer. You should seek help on a news group that specializes on that particular software.

Here is a link to Microsoft's MediaPlayer SDK:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmp6sdk/htm/windowsmediaplayercontrolversion64scriptingreference.asp

[fuzz]

But will internet explorer allways use wmp, and netscape quicktime? How is it determend which viewer will be used? I wan´t it to look the same no matter what you watch on, can you override with 1 program? Maybe use a custom player on server?

[gil davis]

Originally posted by fuzz
But will internet explorer allways use wmp, and netscape quicktime? How is it determend which viewer will be used? I wan´t it to look the same no matter what you watch on, can you override with 1 program? Maybe use a custom player on server? Oops! The link I provided was broken (stupid forum!). It will explain how to use the MediaPlayer 6.4 plug-in for Netscape.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmp6sdk/htm/windowsmediaplayercontrolversion64scriptingreference.asp

[esher2292]

what video embed tutorial???


esher2292

[Magenta]

Originally posted by fuzz
But will internet explorer allways use wmp, and netscape quicktime? How is it determend which viewer will be used? I wan´t it to look the same no matter what you watch on, can you override with 1 program? Maybe use a custom player on server?

Are you talking about download video (eg., Mpeg) or streaming video (eg., .asf or .ra)?

If you're using WMP for streaming video, you can configure the meta-file (this is the .asx text file you write and save to the web server to point to the .asf file on the video server) to include elements such as copyright notices, logos, timings and so on - and also to control the size and alignment of the "screen" and the order of play for the video elements.

As gil says, there is a plug in to enable Netscape for WMP.