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Hi, Mel!

Either the people who populate this site are totally clueless, or I asked an extremely difficult question. I rather think it's the former. A week without a single response!

Anyway, I continued to do my own researching, and today came up with a Web site http://www.freevideocoding.com/, which seems to supply the answer.

I had previously tried to use <embed>, but found that it always failed with Firefox. However, their particular form of the magical spell seems to work for both Firefox and MSIE. MSIE, of course, complains first about ActiveX content (who invented ActiveX, Microsoft?) before grudgingly allowing you to use it.

The coding doesn't work with Netscape (who uses that nowadays?) which gives the same sort of rejection message as I used to get from Firefox.

If you put your video (as a .avi file) in the same Web server directory as your .html file, the required coding looks like this:

<!-- START FreeVideoCoding.com -->
<embed src="MyVideo.avi" width="320" height="283" autostart="1" showcontrols="1" type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/"> </embed>
<!-- END FreeVideoCoding.com -->

I haven't had a chance yet to see whether it works with Mac and Linux browsers.