[thelist] Video in a presentation

Erik Mattheis gozz at gozz.com
Thu Jan 10 04:29:55 CST 2002


>Someone here wants to create videos on our website, embedded in a 
>presentation of static slides. In other words -- the video would not 
>just be a standalone video, it would be part of a presentation, 
>intermixed with stills. That way we can have a lot of presentation 
>data -- figures, charts, text -- that consume little bandwidth and 
>use video only for the snippets that need it.

All popular video formats have the ability to open a URL when the 
file is done playing; you could have the video playing in a frame and 
loading pages containing the static image - and on that page have 
JavaScript load the next video into the frame.

>- I guess Flash is a possibility but we don't have authoring tools 
>or experience and are not eager to distribute something that 
>requires a plug-in.

Right, Flash would not be good, however your not going to be able to 
embed video in a web page without using a plug-in or Active-X control.

>- In any of the above -- what video software do customers need to 
>have? When authoring, do I have to choose Windows Media Player, Real 
>Video, or QuickTime? What are the pros and cons for me in this?

RealVideo and Quicktime both work well with the http pseudo streaming 
you want to do. If you want to maximize the number of people that are 
going to watch the presentation, just picking any two of those three 
formats and 99.9% of people that are interested in viewing video on 
anything near a regular basis will be able to see your presentation.
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