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Part V
Including Multimedia Elements
One codec to watch for if you’re making cross-platform movies is the Intel Indeo Video
codec, sometimes used for Video for Windows (AVI) files. The Indeo codec for Macintosh
is not included with QuickTime and must be installed manually by Macintosh users.
MPEG, QuickTime Video, or AVI clips are good candidates for linking or embedding because a wide
variety of players on multiple platforms can play them. QuickTime movies are best aimed squarely
at the QuickTime Player because of the multiple media types that they contain.
Linking to video
To keep 21st-century TV/movie-addicted users interested in your site, you might want to spice
things up by including a (low-bandwidth!) video or two. To add a video clip to your Dreamweaver
Web page, follow these steps:
1. Select the text, image, or dynamic element that you want to serve as the link to the video file.
If you use an image as a link, you might want to use a frame from the video clip in order
to provide a preview.
2. In the Property inspector, enter the name of the video file in the Link text field or click the
Folder icon to browse for the file. To choose a dynamic source, choose the Select File Name
From Data Sources option in the Select File dialog box. Be sure your selected data source
contains either relative or absolute links to a video file.
3. Because video files can be quite lar ...