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#1 Michael Robson

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Posted 20 October 2011 - 09:34 AM

Hi Guys,

I'm wanting to play a .avi video on a website and was wondering if anyone knew of a easy way to do it?

Thanks,

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Posted 20 October 2011 - 09:25 PM

Michael Robson, on 20 October 2011 - 09:34 AM, said:

I'm wanting to play a .avi video on a website and was wondering if anyone knew of a easy way to do it?

The easiest way is to cater for the lowest common denomiator and convert the AVI file to FLASH as most people have this installed already. Otherwise the page with the avi video will only function in IE and Firefox/ Safari users will need to install Apple Quicktime (a notoriusly bad plugin and memory hog.

if the avi file is small enough upload it through youtube to get the flash version

<-- Internet Explorer embed code -->
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="624" height="352">
<param name="src" value="video.avi" />
<param name="controller" value="false" />
<param name="autoplay" value="true" />
</object>

<-- Firefox and Safari embed code -->
<object type="video/quicktime" data="video.avi" width="624" height="352">
<param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" />
<param name="controller" value="false" />
<param name="autoplay" value="true" />
</object>

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Posted 20 October 2011 - 09:27 PM

Sogo7, on 20 October 2011 - 09:25 PM, said:

<-- Internet Explorer embed code -->
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="624" height="352">
<param name="src" value="video.avi" />
<param name="controller" value="false" />
<param name="autoplay" value="true" />
</object>

<-- Firefox and Safari embed code -->
<object type="video/quicktime" data="video.avi" width="624" height="352">
<param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" />
<param name="controller" value="false" />
<param name="autoplay" value="true" />
</object>

Yup I agree, AVI is not a good format for the internet.
The best thing is to go with FLV.