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Name: Greensystemsgo
Date: March 11, 2005 at 12:22:19 Pacific
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: 3....
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OK, the last coule of times No one has been able to awnser my question. But this time it should be easy.
All i wanna do is is post videos online, but instead of downlaoding them, you can watch them onine. Someone told me that they thought it could be done in Flash, but they didnt know how, so how? I am using Pretty much all the Macromedia programs, Flash/Fireworks/Dreamweaver



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Name: Dr. Nick
Date: March 11, 2005 at 23:04:16 Pacific
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You HAVE to download the content, no other way to go about it. You want to watch it? You have to download it.

Your options are pretty much between streaming (WMV, MMS streams, MOV) and straight downloading (AVI, MPG, and Flash [which can download individual segments, a poor man's streaming]). Streaming downloads as you watch and the others are the familiar download 'till it's done then watch it.

Free or very simple hosts don't often support streaming. Even if they did, there's no way to get around downloading content from your site as you seem to be wanting. Check Google for tutorials and examples if you're interested in streaming.


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Response Number 2
Name: BrettCrowell
Date: March 19, 2005 at 16:41:35 Pacific
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Try this out...

Import your movie into Windows Movie Maker, and click "Save to my Computer" (in the Movie Tasks menu on the left, under Finsih Movie).

Choose your favorite quality setting, and upload it to your site.

Then, using Dreamweaver, you can embed the movie using the following HTML...

<embed src="yourmovie.wmv" width="320" height="256">

*Note, your movie and webpage should be in the the same folder on your server (otherwise you'll have to modify the code a little)

Just so you know, this script seems to make Firefox choke...and for that reason I started using Apple QuickTime formatted movies on my site (you'll need Quicktime Pro to do that). Same code, just the movies are formatted differently.

Good Luck.


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Response Number 3
Name: BrettCrowell
Date: March 19, 2005 at 16:43:03 Pacific
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Here's an example of that script at work...

http://24.58.55.240/Other/movie.htm


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