I would think there would be a simple param for embedded videos to show a volume control but I cannot seem to find anything except stuff on controlling the systems volume using jquery. Is there a way to just enable the built in volume control of an embedded video?
If I use this code to embed the video is there a way to enable the volume control of the player?
<object CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject" width="220">
<param name="fileName" value="URL of my Video">
<param name="autoStart" value="false">
<param name="showControls" value="true">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" src="URL of my video" width=220 autoStart=0 showcontrols=1>
</object>
yes there is. and apparently you added it for two players. i dunno whether the parametes are correct, but this embedding teqnique is really out of date and will not be supported for as many clients as video could be.
you should check out the html5 video tag, the next best alternative (imo) is flash.
have a look at this article: http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
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I've got a webpage which works with a MySQLi DB (this is a private website just for our company and it is not something global). Now, I want to upload some videos on server (and not on the DB) and put their links on the website. Now, here is my question: How can I make browser to open Windows Media Player (after clicking on each link by a user) and play the video on the computer, and not on the browser??
As a matter of fact, I do not want the browser to show my videos to users, I want each user to watch videos by Windows Media Player on their computers.
I think a simple should work in your html
video link
I video should download, depending on your users prefrences the video may open after its finished downloading... you can't force this
If you want stream then this embed should work:
<object id='mediaPlayer' width="320" height="285"
classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95'
codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...' type='application/x-oleobject'>
<param name='fileName' value="http://www.yoursite.com/your-video.wmv">
<param name='animationatStart' value='true'>
<param name='transparentatStart' value='true'>
<param name='autoStart' value="false">
<param name='showControls' value="true">
<param name='loop' value="true">
<embed type='application/x-mplayer2'
pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/'
id='mediaPlayer' name='mediaPlayer' displaysize='4' autosize='-1'
bgcolor='darkblue' showcontrols="true" showtracker='-1'
showdisplay='0' showstatusbar='-1' videoborder3d='-1' width="320" height="285"
src="http://www.yoursite.com/your-video.wmv" autostart="true" designtimesp='5311' loop="true">
</embed>
</object>
Note:
You would be better off using html5 tags and converting to mp4 - not that many people use windows media player these days
I need to embed a video file codified in Windows Media Video format (WMV). The video files are send in streaming using Windows Media Services(in on Demand Mode) over HTTP protocol, and the client need to reproduce them.
I need to dinamically create a page with a video file embedded (each time the file and its path can change).
If I simply put in browser client the path of the file to reproduce, like:
http://myMediaServer:8000/stremVideo/pinball.wmv
automatically Windows Media Player opens, and I can control the reproduction of the video (seek forward, seek backward, pause or resume), without any problem, while if the video file is embedded in an HTML page, using the following code I can't seek the reproduction but I can only pause and resume the video.
<object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" width="480" height="360" codebase="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/">
<param name="Filename" value="http://remoteServer:8000/stremVideo/pinball.wmv">
<param name="AutoStart" value="true">
<param name="ShowControls" value="true">
<param name="BufferingTime" value="2">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
<param name="AutoSize" value="true">
<param name="InvokeURLs" value="false">
<embed src="http://remoteServer:8000/stremVideo/pinball.wmv" type="application/x-mplayer2" autostart="1" enabled="1" showstatusbar="1" showdisplay="1" showcontrols="1" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,0,0" width="480" height="360"></embed>
</object>
So, the questions are the following:
How can I obtain all the control for the embedded video file?
Someone suggest to use Silverlight plugin. How can I embed video in a HTML page using Silverlight plugin? I need to create a Silverlight application? If yes, I need to have one application for each video file I want reproduce?
You need to create one Silverlight player app and use it as more times as you want.
And you can control it via JS.
Silverlight is best solution for high-quality WMV on pages.
Params, which you defined, are params of Silverlight app and you must specify in app which params you must have and how they will be used.
There is an open source player frame work which may help: Have you looked at this? http://playerframework.codeplex.com/
So I am embedding the music like so (testing in firefox),
<object width="300" height="20">
<param name="src" value="music/Furrow.mp3">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="controller" value="true">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
<embed src="music/Furrow.mp3" autostart="false" loop="false" width="300" height="42" controller="true" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
When I load my html pages, there is a little VLC type player, which is perfect. However I have an issue, the player looks like this when i take my mouse off the player,
http://imgur.com/3aCGfx0
How can I change the orange cone + black background to have lets say, album artwork or a picture?
Thanks
PS this might not be the best way to add music, but I am just trying to work out the album artwork for now
The way your doing it is using a default plugin provided by your browser. In your case, this is VLC, but this depends on the client media plugin.
What you have to do is using a custom media player (you know have choice between flash, html5, or so ...), and manage the artwork by your own.
Look at existing solution such as subsonic, ampache ...
Example screenshot form subsonic : there is a little embed flash player, and playlist + artwork is handled with javascript.
To begin with, should know your source code, perhaps a picture to absolute position for the cone icon in CSS.
ps : JW player offers solutions with playlist and album art, always with flash player.
http://www.longtailvideo.com/jw-player/download/
I have an embed code that plays streaming video:
<object width="640" height="480" id="qt" classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="src" value="MY STREAM URL">
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
<param name="controller" value="false">
<embed id="plejer" name="plejer" src="/poster.mov" bgcolor="000000" width="640" height="480" scale="ASPECT" qtsrc="MY STREAM URL" href="MY STREAM URL" kioskmode="true" showlogo=false" autoplay="true" controller="false" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</embed></object>
The embed works as expected in Chrome. However in FireFox(3.6) and IE(9) I get a quicktime logo. I've checked my quicktime player prefs and I don't see a streaming or sdp option in the mime options.
Any ideas why I'm seeing this issue?
Your embed tag is set up to initially display a "poster" video (at /poster.mov, and then change to the stream when its clicked on. The object tag isn't (and also skips many of the parameters you're including in the embed). The general idea with these embed inside object schemes (particularly with QuickTime) is to pass the same parameters in both tags, the object covering IE, the embed covering basically everybody else. – John Flatness
I have two quicktime movie files embedded in one web page. I have set autoplay="false" to prevent them both from playing at the same time, but they still load at the same time. Can I prevent them from loading until the user clicks the play button?
autohref="false" is supposed to do this but it does not seem to work.
Apple's documentation for the EMBED element
[BEGIN EDIT - 2010/03/30]
The problem here, I think, is that there is no control to modify buffering behavior. The AutoHREF parameter refers to preloading the value of an href parameter (or perhaps an HREF embedded in the video itself?), not to buffering the video.
I'm currently using a modification of this technique on some pages and Javascript with Modernizr to dynamically insert different video embeds depending on browser support.
I transcode my video to ogg/theora/vorbis like this with VLC (on a Mac; it's very similar for *nix) with 1024kbps bitrate for video and 128kbps bitrate for audio:
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC \
--rc-fake-tty -I dummy \
${original_video} \
':sout=#transcode{vcodec=theora,vb=1024,acodec=vorbis,ab=128,audio-sync}:standard{mux=ogg,dst=${ogg_file},access=file}' vlc://quit
And to transcode to MP4/H.264/AAC (same bitrates) (assuming VLC supports M4A/AAC audio):
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC \
--rc-fake-tty -I dummy \
${original_video} \
':sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=1024,acodec=mp4a,ab=128}:standard{mux=mp4,dst=${m4v_file},access=file}:sout-transcode-soverlay=0' vlc://quit
(Using the original, high-quality video would be best, but this should work for any format VLC can decode.)
Just for giggles, I also use the HTML5 audio element, when available, and here's how I transcode an mp3 to ogg/vorbis (using lame and vorbis-tools) at 128kbps (VBR) and high quality:
lame --decode ${mp3_file} - \
| oggenc -r -b 128 -q 9 -o ${ogg_file} -
And mp3 to m4a/AAC (using lame and faac):
lame --decode ${mp3_file} - \
| faac -w -s -o ${m4a_file} -
(Of course using the original raw PCM/WAV would be better.)
(IANAL, but:) It's important to note that both H.264 and AAC are under patent (and licensing is exorbitant). There are some fears that Theora may be subject to so-called submarine patents, but it and Vorbis appear to be unencumbered currently.
[END EDIT]
Did you find an answer to this? I'm seeing the same behavior. (I've been assuming that parameter/attribute names are not case-sensitive, as even the Apple docs inconsistently use various case schemes.)
In case there's any confusion, I think what the original questioner (and I) wants is for the Quicktime movie not to be downloaded at all until the user clicks the "play" button. I have several videos on the same page, and it's unlikely that the user will watch them all; I don't want them downloaded until they're explicitly requested. The "autohref" parameter is supposed to ensure this behavior when set to "false", but at least in Firefox 3.6 with Quicktime plugin 7.6.3 on Mac OS 10.6.2, it doesn't appear to work.
<object
classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"
width="332"
height="184"
id="video-0"
>
<param name="src" value="video/sony-ps3.mov" />
<param name="AllowEmbedTagOverrides" value="True" />
<param name="AutoPlay" value="False" />
<param name="AllowEmbedTagOverrides" value="True" />
<param name="AutoPlay" value="False" />
<param name="AutoHREF" value="False" />
<param name="EnableHREF" value="False" />
<param name="EnableJavascript" value="True" />
<param name="ShowLogo" value="False" />
<param name="Volume" value="60" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<embed
width="332"
height="184"
src="video/sony-ps3.mov"
type="video/quicktime"
pluginspage="www.apple.com/quicktime/download"
name="video-0"
AllowEmbedTagOverrides="True"
AutoPlay="False"
AutoHREF="False"
EnableHREF="False"
EnableJavaScript="True"
ShowLogo="False"
Volume="60"
wmode="transparent"
></embed>
</object>
I haven't tried this yet but maybe it will work it's the first thing listed autohref="false"
http://web.mac.com/studybuddys/iWeb/studybuddys/12%20Multimedia_files/06%20Apple%20QT%20Embed%20Tag%20Attributes.pdf
I'm trying to do this for audio (not have it load till the play button is clicked) but i don't have an href value all I have is a src value
ps - I just noticed in your original posting that you said autohref="false" is supposed to do this but doesn't work
I guess I'll just add that I just have a src value and no href value i am trying to find the same answer but with audio
It depends on how you embed the QuickTime movies. But it should respect the autoplay flag. Just putting it in tagswill work, but I think it's not the correct way to do it. Have you done it like the code below?
<object width="160" height="144"
classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="src" value="sample.mov">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="controller" value="false">
<embed src="sample.mov" width="160" height="144"
autoplay="false" controller="false"
pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</embed>
</object>
Update
Or do you mean the movies do not play on page load, but both start playing when the user interacts with one of them? If the latter is the case it would probably be better to set a placeholder image which a user can click and then load the appropriate content, instead of loading both applets at the same time. Doing it like this takes less resources, because the end user machine would only have to load the QuickTime plugin once a user has activated a particular movie.