I am trying to embed a video on a website which will be used as an intro. Im interested in a way of embeding that video without a control bar (play,pause...). I can convert it to any format as I have the project file so compability isnt an issue. I have tried inserting it with tag in HTML5 and that works seamlessly but because of a bug in Chrome white color in the video becomes gray and that doesnt work for me because video background has to be white so it can be camouflaged with the rest of the website.
Interesting. I haven't seen the Chrome/white issue, but from the sounds of it... it's just in dev versions of Chrome? I'm basing this off the last comment from this post.
Looks like there was a patch, and it's waiting to be merged.
Not sure if these help in terms of using HTML5's video tag. If you don't care about the tag, you could always go with a Flash-based version using an .mp4 file. That way, whenever you're comfortable with Chrome's rendering... you could set it back up with the video tag.
Again, if you're ok with using Flash... you could pull it off like so (using Flowplayer):
<object width="600" height="338" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://whywouldyouclickthat.com/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf">
<param name="movie" value="http://whywouldyouclickthat.com/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="flashvars" value='config={"clip": {"url": "/yourDirectory/yourMovie.mp4", "autoPlay":true, "autoBuffering":true},"plugins": {"controls": null}}' />
</object>
Again, not sure if Flash is a deal-breaker here.
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Thank you for your help.
On my site I am embedding youtube videos. Where the video is suppose to be it isn't showing up, in chrome. It works on a macs and it also works on PCs, but only on firefox. Where the video is suppose to be you can "click" on the video and it will start playing, but it is not visible. How do I get it to show up. I thought it might be hiding behind stuff, so I messed with some z-index stuff, but it isn't working. Is there something else I should be looking at?
This is how the code is:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="myytplayer" data="https://www.youtube.com/v/FJqOb-TS-0o&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer&version=3&controls=0&showinfo=0&rel=0" width="500" height="348">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">
</object>
The video is being pulled from my data base, but is being hosted by YouTube.
Here is the code on firefox:
<object id="myytplayer" width="500" height="348" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="https://www.youtube.com/v/FJqOb-TS-0o&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer&version=3&controls=0&showinfo=0&rel=0">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">
</object>
I have tried updating my flash drives to see if that is a problem. I have deleted my cookies. I have even had other people try it out and it just doesn't show up in chrome. Any help would be awesome.
Both your snippet of codes works fine in my Chrome 34 Windows 8.1 machine. Not sure where your issue is coming from. Maybe a system/network/proxy settings specific to Chrome on machines where you are trying from (sometimes Youtube URL are banned from company network).
I would point to the Youtube documentation anyway. Maybe trying another form of embed can help:
Best practice: IFrame embeds are the recommended method for embedding a YouTube player because the IFrame will select the appropriate player based on the client's capabilities and available YouTube file formats.
If you use the object tag you should have an embed tag falback inside (see the doc).
I am using the xhtml valid way to embed below:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" data="youtube-video-url">
<param name="movie" value="youtube-video-url" />
<param name="allscriptaccess" value="always" />
<p>Adobe Flash is required to view this content. Please download Flash Player.</p>
</object>
When I view it in IE without flash installed, I just get a black box and no alternate content. If I take out the type="application/x-shockwave-flash" attribute, the alternate content will appear. Why is it not showing the alternate content when the type attribute is specified and how do I correct this?
IE doesn't support fallback of the object element. What you describe should happen but IE is well, IE. You could use SWFObject to embed the flash if you really like a fallback.
Try removing the data parameter from the tag. It will work that way. Then if you put it back, you will notice that you might not be able to reproduce this issue. Also, try removing and using only data. You will find the possibilities interesting.
I never did find a solution to this problem. It only happened in Windows XP when the type was set to "application/x-shockwave-flash".
i just want to embed a flash like this:
<object
data="data:application/x-shockwave-flash;base64,..."
type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="movie"
value="data:application/x-shockwave-flash;base64,..."
/> </object>
but it just doesn't work. Did i make any mistake?
thankz
That's because it doesn't work. Not only would you have a buffer overflow, but most browsers don't allow for the inclusion of Flash via Data URIs. If you need a good place to host your Flash, Google Code works just fine.
How can I use pure HTML to make a browser-integrated flash-free online music player? Like, you click on a button, and the music starts playing. I have tried everything with <embed> and with(out) <noembed>, but none of it seems to work. I need it to work in Firefox.
I have an MP3 file.
EDIT: Actually, folks, I am SO sorry for asking this question. I have now seen that I simply had not written the path correctly. It all works quite fine with the <embed src="../../path/to/file.mp3" autostart="false" width="20" height="20"/> tag.
The thing is, I was trying to write it for browsers that don't support Flash, like e. g. iPad's Safari.
This ought to help. The HTML5 audio tag has decent support with newer versions of Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera (sadly no Internet Explorer).
You may need to convert your .mp3 to .ogg or another format because certain browsers only allow certain formats.
Oh, you'll need Javascript for controls like .play(), .pause()...
I realize this is not an answer to the question per se, I am adding it for completeness.
This link has every possible permutation you can imagine...
I am not sure if the part below will work in FireFox:
Here is how to embed Windows Media Player into your HTML.
To embed an object in HTML document, the object class ID is required. The class ID for Windows Media Player 7, 9, 10 and 11 is clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6.
Insert the following code into your HTML document to embed Windows Media Player 7 and later:
<OBJECT id="VIDEO" width="320" height="240"
style="position:absolute; left:0;top:0;"
CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
type="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="your file or url">
<PARAM NAME="SendPlayStateChangeEvents" VALUE="True">
<PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="True">
<PARAM name="uiMode" value="none">
<PARAM name="PlayCount" value="9999">
</OBJECT>
In the URL parameter, you can specify a URL (for streaming) or a local file.
I don't think this is possible yet (comes with HTML5).
You could use the Yahoo Media Player which works with Javascript.
I'm using the following code to display a YouTube video.
<object width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie"
value="**URL**">
</param>
<param name="allowFullScreen"
value="true">
</param>
<embed src="**URL**"
type="application/xshockwave-flash"
allowfullscreen="true"
width="425"
height="344">
</embed>
</object>
It works in Firefox, but why doesn't it in Internet Explorer?
I'm a totally new to web development, so I'm running into all these wonderful inconsistencies that you veterans are used to ;)
To elucidate, it doesn't work because the object tag is incomplete. Firefox gives up on the object element and uses the fallback old-school embed element instead. IE doesn't support embed so you get nothing.
An object element must at least have a type attribute telling it what plugin to use and a data attribute telling it what to send the plugin. In IE you also need to mirror the data attribute in a <param name="movie"> value inside the object because it runs plugins differently.
IE won't ‘stream’ partially-loaded Flash files this way though. To get that, you have to use an ActiveX classid instead of the type to tell it which plugin to use. If you care about this (and you might not: for small files, stub loaders, and files that are useless until complete, it makes no difference) then you have to start serving combinations of nested objects or embeds, which quickly becomes confusing.
Try this:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="VID_URL" width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie" value="VID_URL" />
</object>
Previously wasted a few hours working through the same issue. Different cause though...
For IE9, YouTube embeds (at least iframes) were not working because I had previously added Tracking Protection to IE for Google ad servers. In this case, I had to disable the tracking protection (Safety > Tracking Protection) or click the button immediately to the right of the address bar ('Some content is filtered on this site') that alerts end users to filtered content.