Hi All,
I managed to get this working and i *think* markmarkymark is describing what i am doing - i.e. progressively downloading - but tell me if im wrong... I have embedded the following code into a the web page which does play the video when the page is loaded now which is superb (after it was re-encoded into .wmv
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<OBJECT CLASSID=" CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" TYPE=" application/x-oleobject" WIDTH="490" HEIGHT="379" align="absmiddle" ID=" MediaPlayer" >
<PARAM NAME=" FileName" VALUE=" http://http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/videos/RJ-1.wmv" >
<PARAM NAME=" autostart" VALUE=" 1" >
<PARAM NAME=" showcontrols" VALUE=" 1" >
<EMBED
SRC="http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/videos/RJ-1.wmv"
WIDTH="490"
HEIGHT="379"
AUTOSTART=" 1" align="absmiddle" TYPE=" application/x-mplayer2"
SHOWCONTROLS=" 0" > </EMBED> </OBJECT>
So thats how i did it.
Funny thing to note though, Windows media player control bar appeared on screen in Firefox but NOT in IE, mucking around with the showcontrols value in the middle of this code had no effect on IE or Explorer either. However changing the SHOWCONTROLS value at the END of the code to " 1" did show the control bar in IE. Sho why does firefox always show it.
Anyhoo, it works now - and thanks guys.
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Originally Posted by Gareth
TBR, is this for the site you host with Dreamhost? If so, they offer both Real and QuickTime streaming as standard with their hosting plans.
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I hate websites that use Real stuff so i wouldnt inflict that on anyone myself. Quicktime is OK, but WMV is what i wanted to use and to be honest, it was more of a learning excersise than anything else.
I knew it could be done but how?
