Linking To or Embedding a Video Clip
Almost everything you’ve learned so far in this chapter about linking to and embedding sound clips also applies to video clips. Video clips can be placed on a Web page as hyperlinks by using the <a> tag, or can be embedded by using the <embed> or <object> tag.
When you link to a video clip, you don’t need to provide any special arguments or settings in the <a> tag; the clip will simply download to the visitor’s computer and play in his or her default player for that file type. For example:
<a href="seeds.mov">Click here to see a video clip about seed planting (MPEG format, 2MB)</a>
When you embed a video clip, you can use the same arguments in the <embed> tag as you do with a sound clip. The main difference is ...
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