video for ftp… next option after mp4?

[John Rofrano]

I’m not sure Flash would do a better job or what it would buy you. IMHO, AVC/H.264/MP4 is the new Flash (small / high quality / platform independent video).

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

the reason for flash was to have the option to embed the video in a web page.

Is there an easy way to do it with an .mp4?

Gilles

[John Rofrano]

the reason for flash was to have the option to embed the video in a web page. Is there an easy way to do it with an .mp4?

Yes. Practically any video can be embedded in a web page. That is no reason to use Flash. MP4 can be embedded using the Quicktime player or any number of other players.

In fact, if your clients want to watch the video with their shiny new Apple iPad’s they can’t because it doesn’t support Flash! I’m telling you, mp4 delivery is the best way. You can even wrap the mp4 in a SWF file. This is what Camtasia does when you publish for the web (it renders to mp4 and wraps in swf).

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

Hi John,

can you point me in the right direction to embed my mp4 in a web page? I tried and object tab but it didn’t provide any controls even if I had the value set to “true”. I must be doing something wrong.

What is the correct way to embed?
G

Gilles

[John Rofrano]

Here is how I embed MP4 files in my site:

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" CODEBASE="https://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" WIDTH="360" HEIGHT="280" >
<PARAM NAME="src" VALUE="YourVideo.mp4" >
<PARAM NAME="autoplay" VALUE="true" >
<PARAM NAME="loop" VALUE="true" >
<EMBED SRC="YourVideo.mp4" TYPE="image/x-macpaint" PLUGINSPAGE="https://www.apple.com/quicktime/download" WIDTH="360" HEIGHT="280" AUTOPLAY="true">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Just replace “YourVideo.mp4” with your video filename.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks John, I’ll try it.

I’m hoping the page won’t take too long to load as I have 8 videos on it. I will not start them “automatically”.

Gilles