Video on webpage created with FrontPage 2003

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Ugly Girl

Hi,

I am having a problem getting a video, in a page made with FrontPage 2003,
to work properly.

After the video loads the picture goes away before it is finished, but the
sound continues.

I couldn't get it to work at all until I inserted in using the "unsupported
video file format" instructions. It is an avi file.

Here is a link to the page if anyone can take a look and see what I need to
do.

http://rqbing.tripod.com/come_home/2008/parade_lead.htm

I am going to put a link on my homepage to this page and would like for the
video to start as soon as it is loaded and play through.

Thank you to anyone who can help.

Janie
 
A

Andrew Murray

Unfortunately , none of the browsers on my system will play the file, or
even find a plug-in to play the video, I get an error saying "Cannot find
plug-in for unsupported file type" or "Unknown Plug-in"

I have windows media player, QuickTime Flash video player and so on, but the
browser doesn't recognise

1) the file type or
2) there's something with your code preventing this working correctly.

It won't work in any of

- Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
- IE 7.0 (usually IE is more forgiving for non-compliant code, but in this
case, it's not working either)

How did you insert the video - through FrontPage GUI, Insert > Video? or
did you hand-code that line?

First a couple of things I think you should do:

1) Add this DocType:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">


to your code - code view, line 1 of every page) and use this code (below) to
insert your video rather than as you've done it.

See the www.w3c.org page, http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html,
for more info about Doc Types.

2) Copy and paste the code below:

<object id="media1" height="200" type="video/x-ms-wmv" width="200">
<param name="filename" value="../../yourfile.avi" />
</object>

Replace your line of code (the <embed> tag). Republish the page.

It's well known that FrontPage doesn't exactly follow the rules when it
comes to compliant HTML - it doesn't even insert a Doc Type Declaration
(DTD), therefore you should really put this in manually as described above.
The <embed> tag is an older tag and may not be supported in newer or all
browsers.

I've managed to locate the full URL to the video file and it will load and
play in Windows Media Player OK, but not in the browser. The URL is
http://rqbing.tripod.com/images/mvi_0202.avi.


Hope this helps.
 
U

Ugly Girl

Thank you Andrew. I am going to print your instructions and work on this
today. It will take me a long time to figure this all our, if indeed I do.
I'm not experienced at this but I try real hard to learn it. I have only
used FrontPage so I will have to study real hard and see if I can figure out
how to do this video with writing HTML.

By the way, I did insert it through FrontPage>insert>video.

Thanks again for your help. I will probably be back again before this is
either fixed properly or I give up.

Janie
 
U

Ugly Girl

Hi Andrew,

I'm back. I got the box on the page but the video isn't linked properly
apparently.

I didn't understand your comment "Replace your line of code (the <embed>
tag). "

Maybe that is the problem.

Would you mind taking a look now and see what you think I need to do. I sure
appreciate your help so far. I feel like I am getting close to making it
work.

http://rqbing.tripod.com/come_home/2008/parade_lead.htm

Thank you so much.

Janie
 

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