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Goldilocks
08-01-2001, 07:57 AM
Someone at work has asked me to place a .avi movie onto our intranet. I have never done this before and I can't get it to work.

We only use IE (various versions) so am I right in saying that I cannot use <EMBED> tags as these are only supported by Netscape?

Any help would be appreciated! TIA ;)
whkoh
08-01-2001, 09:22 AM
EMBED tags are cross-browser, don't know about AVI, though
Goldilocks
08-01-2001, 09:35 AM
Okay, thanks whkoh. I just thought I remembered reading somewhere that <EMBED> tags are only supported by Netscape. Must have imagined it!

Anyone else have any ideas? :confused:
pixelmonkey
08-01-2001, 09:54 AM
care to turn the monkey loose on it?

in some cases you can imbed a player into the page and have it display with the same controls that the Media Player has. is this what you are wanting to do?

give the monkey some files and he can tear it apart.. or up... all depends on how you look at it
chris<pixelmonkey>:monkey:
Goldilocks
08-01-2001, 10:12 AM
They've decided it's not worth the trouble, it's just a friend of a friend of a collegue happened to have a camera running when an earthquake hit the Microsoft offices some time ago.

But I can send you the movie anyway, if you want to have a play around with it. It would be interesting to know how to do it for future reference.

Let me know.
pixelmonkey
08-01-2001, 11:31 AM
please do send it! i like to see destruction on a larger scale then the monkey can do... just as long as everyone had fun and no one was hurt!

watch out, the monkey has a lighter!
chris<pixelmonkey>:monkey:
trish1206
08-01-2001, 02:01 PM
Right now, I'm putting a video into my site.
I had to download it off another site, so it's in RM. But for some reason, my RealMedia Player will only play the audio portion. ARGHHH! It's so frustrating. I have it linking right off the page, like this:

<tr><td><a class=graytp target=_blank href="welcome.rm">Welcome Video</a></td></tr>

I would like to know how to embed the player, though. So, pm, if you can help with that, that would be cool.

Trish
pixelmonkey
08-01-2001, 02:24 PM
real audio stuff i have documented at home.. check back to this thread later and i can give you about everything you need.
chris<pixelmonkey>:monkey:
pixelmonkey
08-01-2001, 03:18 PM
Originally posted by trish1206
Right now, I'm putting a video into my site.
I had to download it off another site, so it's in RM. But for some reason, my RealMedia Player will only play the audio portion. ARGHHH! It's so frustrating. I have it linking right off the page, like this:

<tr><td><a class=graytp target=_blank href="welcome.rm">Welcome Video</a></td></tr>

I would like to know how to embed the player, though. So, pm, if you can help with that, that would be cool.

Trish

this might help some!
i know that posting real audio files is tricky - i had problems also when starting. i think your naming convention might be amiss. there is a text file that looks something like this:
http://www.website.com:7070/34skid/realaudio/myaudio1.rm

NOTE: that the URL has a server port number but this is usually optional.

linking to this text file will call the Real Media file named "myaudio1.ram"
to play on the client's Real Media plug-in on the client's browser, as long as it is in a directory of the root named "realaudio". If the server is UNIX then remember that directories and files ARE case sensitive.

RECAP:

Place 2 files wherever you want to call them from on the server:
1. the actual media file with the extension "ram"
2. a text file that "plays" the media file in the same directory on the
server with the extension "rpm"

Link to the .rpm file which plays the ram file only the actual text file
names the media file with the extension ".rm"

hope it helps!
chris<pixelmonkey>:monkey:
trish1206
08-02-2001, 10:49 AM
PM:

So, you're saying to create a metafile? And that metafile will be in the same directory as the rm file? Does this work for video? I thought this was just an audio thing. I tried to access that link you put up but to no avail.

I don't know. I'm confused and we have a final pitch tomorrow. Right now, I just have the link pointing directly to the rm file, but when realplayer opens, it only plays the audio not the video.

Any suggestions are appreciated.
pixelmonkey
08-02-2001, 12:18 PM
after i make it home (5pm cst) i will send you some more info there. (some day i'm going to have to bring it to work with me!)

i'll do my best to help you get the presentation ready for tommrow
chris<pixelmonkey>:monkey:
trish1206
08-02-2001, 02:10 PM
PM:

I realized that my monitor wasn't set at 16bit for the realplayer to show the video. So now the video and audio are working.

So that's fine for presentation purposes, but if we get the bid, I will have to worry about how to embed the video.

Can you embed a player? That would be helpful if I could make it so users didn't have to download a thing.

Thanks for all your help! You're the champ!
pixelmonkey
08-03-2001, 09:34 AM
Originally posted by trish1206
Can you embed a player? That would be helpful if I could make it so users didn't have to download a thing.

yes, you can, however it does require the viewer to have some version of the player installed on their system. (or the last time i checked anyway)

congtaz on getting the real player to work, and i will dig around some on the real website to see if the player can be used via server... if you find out anything, please let me know!

have fun with it all!
chris<pixelmonkey>:monkey: