[lug] html / flv headache

[Steve A Hart]

Thanks Ken,

I just stumble upon jwplayer and it seems to work well.  Got some more 
testing to do but looks promising.  If this fails, I'll definitely look 
into flowplayer!

Cheers

Steve

On 10/30/2010 10:08 PM, Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
> On 10/30/2010 04:10 PM, Steve A Hart wrote:
>> I'm hoping someone out there does web design and can give me some
>> guidance.  Not exactly a linux thing but I'm about to go postal on this
>> and need some direction.
>>
>> I'm working on a page hosted on godaddy.com and I have a handful of FLV
>> video files I want to embed in the page.  I don't use dreamweaver, I
>> code direct html.
>>
>> Here's what I have and it works on my Linux Firefox:
>>
>> <object width="520" height="292" autoplay="false" autoStart="0">
>> <param name="movie" value="media/FILE.flv">
>> <embed src="media/FILE.flv" width="520" height="292" autoplay="false"
>> autoStart="0" showcontrols="1">
>> </embed>
>> </object>
>>
>> On Windows (firefox or IE), and I'm guessing Safari, it's a no go.
>>
>> I'm guessing I have to embed the player as well but I have no clue how
>> to do that.  Anyone skilled with this that can give me advice?
>
> Take a look here:
>
> http://flowplayer.org/
>
> It's what I used when I set up one of the sites I designed. You can take
> a look at http://charlesneilwoodworking.com and view source to see how I
> set it up. I have a couple of extras thrown in there so it may not be
> the cleanest to look at - but everything I know about embedding video
> players came from the flowplayer site.
>
> HTH
>>
>> I'm pulling hair out at this point.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
>

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Steve Hart
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Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
University of Colorado Boulder
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