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by **kilerb** » Sat 08 Oct, 2005 6:03 pm

Hi there, I was hoping someone would know how to do this... My brother has a website with a little video that he'd like to embed. It's a .wmv file. (We have the .AVI as well in case this is impossible i'll encode it to another format.) He really wants to have a still from the video where the video is going to play, and when you click it, or click play, it starts in that same box where the still was. Is this doable? I've heard that it would be easier with quicktime or flash, but he's really set on using his .wmv file. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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by **Antony** » Tue 18 Oct, 2005 5:03 am

kilerb wrote:Hi there, I was hoping someone would know how to do this... My brother has a website with a little video that he'd like to embed. It's a .wmv file. (We have the .AVI as well in case this is impossible i'll encode it to another format.) He really wants to have a still from the video where the video is going to play, and when you click it, or click play, it starts in that same box where the still was. Is this doable? I've heard that it would be easier with quicktime or flash, but he's really set on using his .wmv file. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I believe it is doable, but I don't know how.
(I know the QuickTime way, please see http://mac.sillydog.org/qt/mov/embed_streaming.php )

My Windows Media embedded test page, without the image placeholder:
http://mac.sillydog.org/qt/mov/streaming_wm.php

When I figure out why, I will let you know.

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by **kilerb** » Tue 18 Oct, 2005 10:13 am

very cool, thanks a lot!

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by **Antony** » Fri 21 Oct, 2005 8:13 pm

You can use [tt]standby[/tt] attribute.

According to my reference, it says, HTML content to be displayed while the [tt]object[/tt] is loading. I think it can only be text string.

e.g.

Code: Select all: <object classid="clsid:83A38BF0-B33A-A4FF-C619A82E891D" standby="Loading Movie..." height="150" width="250">

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by **kilerb** » Fri 21 Oct, 2005 8:22 pm

So the window will show text but not a still from the video or graphics that i choose?

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Is this possible?

Is this possible?

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