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28 April 2009, 11:14 AM
Teedee

Embed MP4 in page

I have created a place holder and inserted the following code into it. It works fine locally but when I upload it to my website it appears to load but does not play :mad:. The file is an MP4 and is ~25MB. I downloaded the code after viewing a number of sites which appear to be using similar code. The code:

<div align="center">
<object id="mediaPlayer" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="640" height="545" 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="autoStart" value="true"/>
<param name="url" value="tent_fold.mp4" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="uiMode" value="full" />
<param name="loop" value="false" />
<embed id="EmbedmediaPlayer" type="application/x-mplayer2" src=" + videolink + " width="350" height="260">
</embed>
</object>
</div>

Where is this failing please?:confused:
td
28 April 2009, 11:23 AM
steve.ledger

Re: Embed MP4 in page

25mb is a large file to buffer from the web.
Can you supply the URL to the online version of your page?
28 April 2009, 11:34 AM
Teedee

Re: Embed MP4 in page

Yes. It does take a while.
greygypsies.com.au/info/popup_tent.htm

Quote:

Originally Posted by sledger

25mb is a large file to buffer from the web.
Can you supply the URL to the online version of your page?
28 April 2009, 11:53 AM
steve.ledger

Re: Embed MP4 in page

<embed id="EmbedmediaPlayer" type="application/x-mplayer2" src=" + videolink + " width="350" height="260">

Replace + videolink + with tent_fold.mp4

See how that goes?
28 April 2009, 11:55 AM
steve.ledger

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Re: Embed MP4 in page

Here's an alternative MP4 player (QT)

Edit the source as required (video name and dimensions)
28 April 2009, 12:33 PM
Teedee

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Re: Embed MP4 in page

Quote:

Originally Posted by sledger

<embed id="EmbedmediaPlayer" type="application/x-mplayer2" src=" + videolink + " width="350" height="260">

Replace + videolink + with tent_fold.mp4

See how that goes?

Thanks.
Tried all three. I had seen the Quicktime solution while looking for how to do this. It seemed a parallel solution. The simple solution you proposed (replace videolink with <filename> comes up "Ready" but does nothing and the Go button also does nothing. (Actual code after replacement: type="application/x-mplayer2" src=tent_fold.mp4" + " width="350" height="260">)

The zip version you supplied displays a dark grey page with black writing and a rectangle superimposed but nothing else. (See attachment)

The quicktime version got me to download a plugin (Quicktime). This happened and when finished the page displayed with a box containing Q but no action.
28 April 2009, 12:46 PM
steve.ledger

Re: Embed MP4 in page

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teedee

The zip version you supplied displays a dark grey page with black writing and a rectangle superimposed but nothing else. (See attachment)
.

Looks like you extracted only the index.htm and not the rest.

Quote:

The simple solution you proposed (replace videolink with <filename> comes up "Ready" but does nothing and the Go button also does nothing. (Actual code after replacement: type="application/x-mplayer2" src=tent_fold.mp4" + " width="350" height="260">)

Your code wasn't replaced exactly as I'd suggested. Have a closer look at my post and compare it with what you have actually done.
28 April 2009, 01:11 PM
Teedee

Re: Embed MP4 in page

Quote:

Your code wasn't replaced exactly as I'd suggested. Have a closer look at my post and compare it with what you have actually done.

Is this correct?
type="application/x-mplayer2" src=" + tent_fold.mp4 + " width="350" height="260"
28 April 2009, 01:16 PM
covoxer

Re: Embed MP4 in page

Quote:

Is this correct?

No! :D:D:D
No pluses there!
Try this one.

Quote:

type="application/x-mplayer2" src="tent_fold.mp4" width="350" height="260"
28 April 2009, 01:17 PM
steve.ledger

Re: Embed MP4 in page

Not quite.

I used the red colour to show the text to replace. So it should look like this:

<embed id="EmbedmediaPlayer" type="application/x-mplayer2" src="tent_fold.mp4" width="350" height="260">

The full version of your placeholder code would be:

<object id="mediaPlayer" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="640" height="545" 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="autoStart" value="true"/>
<param name="url" value="tent_fold.mp4" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="uiMode" value="full" />
<param name="loop" value="false" />
<embed id="EmbedmediaPlayer" type="application/x-mplayer2" src="tent_fold.mp4" width="350" height="260">
</embed>
</object>
28 April 2009, 02:02 PM
Teedee

Re: Embed MP4 in page

Thanks to both of you.
I have it working, well mostly. Your comment, sledger, about the cache is probably right on the money. I have gone back to the original code and used your last code. I can get both working with both tent_fold.mp4 and video.mp4 on the local site (no broadband) but when I upload it to the website the tent_fold.mp4 displays 'connecting' for a long period & then stops, whereas video runs fine.

The big file (tent_fold) runs ok on the web if you use a hyperlink to it and allow it to open on a blank page.

It looks as though I need to drop the size of the file. It has enough res to run full screen so I can chop it back considerably.
Again
Thanks for your patience
td
29 April 2009, 02:05 PM
Teedee

Re: Embed MP4 in page

It is now working thank you. The video has been compressed to well under 2MB & runs nicely. It was the size that was the issue.
See greygypsies.com.au/info/popup_tent.htm. There are a few bits to clean up but they are mostly housekeeping.
Thanks