Embedding .MPEG files on a webpage

[Quantum Media LLC]

Does anyone know the code to embed .mpeg files on a webpage with a playlist??? I want my viewers to be able to go to one page and select a song they see and it play on the page.... i need/have to have a play list or something of the sort.

[moce]

u could use frames. so for example u create a frame which is the playlist and another frame where the .mpeg plays.

u just have to target the links to the videos in your playlist to the other frame.

 

the code to play the videos directly when loaded (no control panel):

<object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95">
   <param name="type" value="video/x-ms-mpg">
   <param name="filename" value="video.mpg">
   <param name="autostart" value="1">
   <param name="showcontrols" value="0">
   <param name="showdisplay" value="0">
   <param name="showstatusBar" value="0">
   <param name="autosize" value="1">
</object>

[mushroomz]

Be sure to test it out on other browsers like Firefox and Opera. I've notice that some embed codes do no work on certain browsers.

[Andrey]

You can add the music as a link, which is probably what you want:

 

The music can be in a variety of formats, including mid (midi), wav, MP3, ram, ra, aiff, and so on), and it is solely up to the viewer whether they listen to it or not, as they browse your site. You can provide a simple text link to the file or create a coordinating image to take them there.

 

Example Text Link:

 

<A HREF="http://www.yourdomain.com/beautifulday.wav">
Listen to Music
</A>

 

Which would look like:

 

Listen to Music

 

Example Graphic Link::

 

<A HREF="http://www.yourdomain.com/floating.wav"> 
<img src="http://www.visionsofadonai.com/musicbutton.jpg" border=0>
</A>

 

This would ultimately look like this:

 

<img src="http://www.visionsofadonai.com/musicbutton.jpg" border=0 >

 

The drawback is you can't stop the music.

 

And how to put it in a playlist I have no idea. For that you need flash and flash is getting really popular with playing music. What I would do is to search how to make a mpeg playlist with flash.

 

Be sure to test it out on other browsers like Firefox and Opera. I've notice that some embed codes do no work on certain browsers.

 

And mushroomz is right.

 

For example with Microsoft Frontpage when you add layers, they look different in IE and Avant Browser then in Firefox and Netscape.

 

So you should pay attention to those things.

[Dragonfire]

But the drawback with flash is that not all people have flash player installed on their systems. So only people having it installed could view it and others who do not have it could not.

[Andrey]

Yes thats true, but flash is one of the biggest things out there. Almost ever body uses it, because almost every website uses it. But Dragonfire is still right. Some people may not have flash installed.

[Dragonfire]

Its the same case with java. Some systems that do not have java installed on their computers can not open java applications. However, many users do have flash as youtube also works on flash and so do many other anime and games websites.

[Quantum Media LLC]

i have decided to just stick with the .flv files i have on my system now. It has a self contained container to play the files so it's all good. Thanks for all your help peeps

 

[Dragonfire]

But don't you think it will be much easier for your visitor's that do not have flash player to run the .flv files if you convert it into a .mov or any other format which is common. But nowadays many people have flash player but the people who don't know much about computers wouldn't know how to make that video work.

[joemama718]

true but it would be useless to have a .mov file because the user can't interact with a .mov file...correct? hence taking out the purpose of having a playlist, unless you don't plan on having the user control the music...

 

but RK says he figured it out. so i guess its all good.

[Quantum Media LLC]

no i still need a way to play video files on my website with a play list. any way would be great without using flash.