designing video website

[rob_dalton]

i want to include videos in my website is ther a player i can get for free that plays the most common video files.

[Creativ_Technologies]

There are a few ways to do this. The simplest way is this:

<EMBED SRC="videoSource" WIDTH="125" HEIGHT="150" AUTOSTART="FALSE">

[rob_dalton]

i dont follow what does this do

[rob_dalton]

i dont follow what does this do

[Creativ_Technologies]

This places a video clip in your webpage.

<EMBED SRC="videoSource" WIDTH="125" HEIGHT="150" AUTOSTART="FALSE">

SRC is the name of the video/audio file
WIDTH/HEIGHT is just what is sounds like
AUTOSTART is just like it sounds, set it to TRUE if you want the video/audio file to play on startup.

This is a very basic tag.

[rob_dalton]

i want to use videos stored in a database can i still use this

[Creativ_Technologies]

Yes, just make your SRC="<%=rs.fields.item("videoSource").value%>

[rob_dalton]

what if the user has no video uploaded yet do you get that horrible box with an x

[Creativ_Technologies]

You will have to do a check to see if it's there, if it is show it, if its not then don't.

[rob_dalton]

could i make a record set and put the show if recordset is not empty function

[Creativ_Technologies]

yes

[RGolfer]

Hi Envision3d,

I have been trying to get a video to work from a database as well with no luck. I have tested to see that the database is working and all is fine but when I go to teh page using the "Go To Detail" page I get a blank white box. Can you give me a hane here? Here is the code:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=" http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="32" height="32" title="Toyo Tire Video CHannel">
<param name="movie" value="<%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link").Value)%>" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="<%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link").Value)%>" quality="high" pluginspage=" http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="32" height="32"></embed>
</object>

[Creativ_Technologies]

Can you post a link?

[RGolfer]

Hi Again,

Here is the initial page:
http://www.toyotires.ca/Video/VideoSpots/VideoEN.asp
Here is the page it points to (by clicking an icon you basically get here too):
http://www.toyotires.ca/Video/VideoSpots/VideoEN2.asp?ID=3

Under the white box you can see the name of the flash file so I know the database is reading properly but I just can't get the video to play. Anyhelp is appreciated.

[Creativ_Technologies]

I see the movies no problem. In both IE and Firefox.

[RGolfer]

HI Envision3d

Just figuered it out thanks to Paul. I knew it would be something simple. I don’t understand it of course but I made a separate column in the database this time with the file name less the .swf extension. When DW loads the player for some reason it removes the extension in the following lines when you place a video directly into the page. i.e. 'movie','/Video/VideoSpots/VerEN_East' as apposed to 'movie','/Video/VideoSpots/VerEN_East.swf' which is what my database was inserting.

Here are the changes I made:

NEW CODE

AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase',' http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','325',... Video Channel','src','<%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link2").Value)%>','quality','high','pluginspage',' http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','<%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link2").Value... ); //end AC code

</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=" http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="325" height="260" title="Toyo Video Channel">

<param name="movie" value="<%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link").Value)%>" />

<param name="quality" value="high" />

<embed src="<%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link").Value)%>" width="325" height="260" autostart="false" quality="high" pluginspage=" http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>

</object>

</noscript>



OLD CODE

AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase',' http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','325',... Video Channel','src','<%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link").Value)%>','quality','high','pluginspage',' http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','<%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link").Value)... ); //end AC code

</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=" http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="325" height="260" title="Toyo Video Channel">

<param name="movie" value="<%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link").Value)%>" />

<param name="quality" value="high" />

<embed src="<%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link").Value)%>" width="325" height="260" autostart="false" quality="high" pluginspage=" http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>

</object>

</noscript>



I probably could probably just use one database feild and just ad the .swf extension where needed eg <%=(VideoPlaying.Fields.Item("mv_link").Value)%>.swf but what the heck!

Not sure if there is a better way of doing this but this seems to work. If you have a simpler way of doing it please let me know.

Thanks for replying. Have a great week.