September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
31h 42m
English
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Adding Video to an HTML Document
This section looks at the ways video files can be linked to or embedded within an HTML document.
A Simple Link
Like audio, downloadable video files (AVI,
MPEG, and QuickTime) can be linked to HTML documents using the
standard <a> tag:
<A HREF="video.mov">Check out the video (1.3MB)</A>
When the user clicks on the link, the browser looks at the file type (as defined in the filename suffix) and launches an external player application or uses a plug-in to play the movie right in the browser window. Which player it uses depends on how that user has the browser configured, so it is out of the control of the web page designer.
Streaming Video
As
in
audio, streaming media in the RealMedia (.rm)
and streaming Windows Media (.asf ) formats are
added to web pages via linked or embedded reference files (also
called metafiles). The process, covered in detail at the end of Chapter 24, is exactly the same for video as for audio.
See the audio chapter for more thorough coverage.
RealMedia
In brief, to link to a RealMedia movie, create a link to a RealMedia
metafile (.ram) as shown in this example:
<A HREF="movie.ram">Link to the streaming movie</A>
The metafile is a small text-only file that contains only the URL for
the RealMedia file (suffix .rm). When the user
clicks the link, the browser accesses the metafile, which launches
the player and passes it the URL of the actual media file:
pnm://domainname.com/song.rmTo embed a RealMedia movie on a web page, use the ...
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