Multiple MP4s

[EyesOpen]

I'm using Xara Designer Pro 6. If I want to have multiple MP4 videos on a website can I put them on different layers on a single page using pop-up layers (stacked on top of each other, layer by layer and linking from a video still thumbnail), or do I have to create separate pages for each Video MP4?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

[gwpriester]

John - At the risk of sounding glib, the best way to find out is TO TRY IT.

[Clevo]

or you can do it like I have done on this website but in my case I didn't want thumbnails.

This website was designed with XARA Web Design 6

http://home.exetel.com.au/coopertonks/build4/video.htm

[jimhanus]

Clevo,
I can't get any of the videos to play. I'm using Firefox 3.6.13. Clicking on the video links do nothing. Any suggestions?

Jim

[bjornkn]

I suppose you can, but I don't know if all videos will be loaded initially or not?
I did some tests with several Java and Flash panoramas on popup layers, and that did not work very well, because everything was loaded when opening the page, even when the popup layers were hidden. But I guess that mp4s are not loaded until started?

What I would do is to make a small page for each video, at the size of the video, and with nothing else than the video on them. Named vid01.htm, vid02.htm etc
Then I would make a rectangle on the main page, the size of the videos, and then add HTML code to display a named iframe on a popup layer (or on the page itself), with src set to some still image/thumb from the (first?) video (or some info?).
Add thumbs/buttons/links for each video.
Set links to the video pages, and set Target (Open link in) the name of the iFrame.
On this page I show 3 YouTube videos in the same iframe using that technique: http://bknilssen.no/SU/tut/linker.htm
There are lots of possible variations here...

[gwpriester]

This was just slipped under the door:

This will suit John's needs (if he's OK with external FTP'ing and a bit of
HTML)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWBP895xTLI

Note that VLB can work with video files from your HDD as well as links to
YouTube (which I used in the demo tutorial)

[Big Frank]

That's an excellent tip. I'd hardly say it was easy for the absolute beginner, but then I doubt the absolute beginner would be looking to do this.

[Clevo]

Clevo,
I can't get any of the videos to play. I'm using Firefox 3.6.13. Clicking on the video links do nothing. Any suggestions?

Jim

Thanks for the heads up will look into it...it's working fine in IE