Chapter 6 of this FAQ is about integrating to iWeb the following file formats:
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-Flash (SWF)
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-Flash (FLV)
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-Windows Media (WMV)
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-QuickTime (MOV)
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-Real (RM)
knowing the URL (location on the web) of the content.
Chapter 1: Multiple Quicktime movies. How do I manage them best?
Having multiple Quicktime movies on the same page isn’t a good idea especially if their filesize (Megabytes) is larger due to to the fact that they would load very slowly and take a long time to load.
A solution would be to have a page for each movie. It works better than having them all on one page but you end up with a lot of pages.
The best solution would be to use a PhotoPage. PhotoPages work the same way with movies as they do with photos. You will have the overview page, the page with the little thumbnails displaying at the top and the movie playing and there’s also the slideshow page where all movies play one after the other.
Chapter 2: Movies display as Q instead of movies?
The Q means that the movie is loading. If you don’t want the Q and want the progress bar instead (sometimes also referred to as quick start)
Open the file using QuickTime Pro.
From the File menu choose "Save As..." and pick the Desktop as the save location so you don't have to rename the file.
(This was suggested by QuickTimeKirk on the Apple Discussion Forum)
Chapter 3: Storing Flash files and other content on your iDisk (skip this chapter if you’re not interested in that)
1. Create a folder in your iDisk/Web/Sites folder.
2. Name it something like 'files' or ‘movies’ or whatever
3. Copy your .flv or any other file to that folder
4. web.mac.com/username/nameofthefolder/nameofthefile.extension is the address at which the file will be stored on the web
Example: http://web.mac.com/username/movies/nameofthefile.flv
Substitute the red url in the codes with that one modified to fit your case
Chapter 4: Storing Flash files and other content on non-.Mac (skip this chapter if you’re not interested in that)
1. Create a new folder in the folder you publish your website to from iWeb
2. Name this new folder something like 'files' or ‘movies’ or whatever
3. Copy your .flv or any other file to that folder
4. Upload the folder to your server using your FTP application
5. yourbaseurl.com/nameofthefolder/nameofthefile.extension is the address at which the file will be stored on the web
Example: http://yourbaseurl.com/movies/nameofthefile.flv
Substitute the red url in the codes with that one modified to fit your case
Chapter 5: Integrating video to iWeb (easiest way but may not work for Internet Explorer!)
1. Go to this page:
http://www.freevideocoding.com/
2. Select .flv or whatever other format you want
3. Enter mediafile location (if you stored the content on iDisk: http://web.mac.com/username/files/nameofthemovie.flv)
7. Click "embed the player" and have a look at the other choices displaying
8. Click on Make HTML and copy the code
9. Go to the page you want to add the movie to, make an html snippet and paste the code you got in it adding <object> before the <embed...> and </object> after the </embed> tag resulting in <object><embed....................................................</embed></object>
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10.Click apply and the video should appear in iWeb
Chapter 6: Integrating video to iWeb (should work for Internet Explorer too)
The following codes were collected all over the internet, we hope they work...
WMV
<object type="video/x-ms-wmv"
data="http://www.sarahsnotecards.com/catalunyalive/fishstore.wmv"
width="320" height="260">
<param name="src"
value="http://www.sarahsnotecards.com/catalunyalive/fishstore.wmv" />
<param name="autostart" value="true" />
<param name="controller" value="true" />
</object>
QUICKTIME
The following code is written for a 320x240 px movie. As you will notice the height is set to 256 and not 240px. That’s because the movie controls take 16px in height and those must be added to the height for the controls to work properly.
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="320"
HEIGHT="256" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="sample.mov">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true">
<EMBED SRC="sample.mov" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="256" AUTOPLAY="true"
CONTROLLER="true"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
You can disable the movie controls by changing the parameters Controller=”true” to Controller=”false”.
FLV
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://flv-player.net/medias/player_flv_mini.swf" width="320" height="240">
<param name="movie" value="http://flv-player.net/medias/player_flv_mini.swf" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="flv=http%3A//flv-player.net/medias/KyodaiNoGilga.flv&autoplay=1&autoload=1" />
</object>
That uses the player of http://flv-player.net/
SWF
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
width="468" height="60"
id="mymoviename">
<param name="movie"
value="example.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="example.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff"
width="468" height="60"
name="mymoviename" align="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>
REAL
<object width="320" height="256"
classid="CLSID:CFCDAA03-8BE4-11CF-B84B-0020AFBBCCFA">
<param name="src" value="videotest.rm" />
<param name="center" value="false" />
<param name="maintainaspect" value="true" />
<param name="autostart" value="false" />
<param name="numloop" value="1" />
<param name="controls" value="imagewindow,all" />
</object>
Visit the following sites for further informations:
http://www.exploittheweb.co.uk/objects.html (*****Best)
http://www.danfergusdesign.com/classfiles/VCA225-digiProduction/exercises/ex-videoEmbed.html
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/byebyeembed
http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/compatibility.html
Note: If you experience the following problem:
“The shape of the picture is not quite right - the player seems to squeeze the picture slightly even though I know I have the correct pixel ratio set up”.
You should try to play around a bit with pixels... Maybe different things handle pixel slightly differently... Maybe you have to include the pixels used by the movie control bar...
“I have done that by measuring it with a rectangle in iWeb. For my 400x225 16:9 movie, I needed to add 18 pixels and it worked. This is solved, thanks”
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