brady.k — Sun, 13 Apr 2003 02:20:47 +0000

Quote: I want the file to begin playing right away as the users enter the page

yes it does, but you also said

Quote: I don't want to force the user to dowload anything

if you want bg noise or music, its not neccesarily best to stream, but if you dont want to force a dl, then its fine

beekay — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:42:27 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Eskater05
why not just embed it without specifiying, make it inline, and just use a regular .mpg file, so the user's settings can decide...

Would it stream by default doing it this way?.

brady.k — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:39:45 +0000

why not just embed it without specifiying, make it inline, and just use a regular .mpg file, so the user's settings can decide...

Abhishek Reddy — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 05:44:25 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by oce222:
Yeah I am REALLY starting to like WMP a lot more than I used to... the new version really rocks for xp. Five stars. And for your website, yes, go with wmp. Better for streaming AND downloading.

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Quote: Originally posted by mairving:
Of course, people on non-Windows systems wouldn't be able to play it since WMP is Windows only.

QT is a good choice too.

oce222 — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 22:07:43 +0000

Yeah I am REALLY starting to like WMP a lot more than I used to... the new version really rocks for xp. Five stars. And for your website, yes, go with wmp. Better for streaming AND downloading.

zollet — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:33:07 +0000

I love and recommend quicktime for online video clips. It's never given me any problems.

andy206uk — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:19:34 +0000

lol... if you have to go with one file format i'd say use quick time cos it generally gives better quality for smaller sizes, its good manners to offer the movie in all three formats if your going to embed a movie.

beekay — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 14:20:53 +0000

WOW, thanks.

I also found a ton of info that will walk me right through the whole thing. It looks like if I import Quicktime files into MX, it will work great. I have MX, so this will be what I'm going to go with.

Thanks a ton guys! - I started thinking RP or WMP and ended with Quicktime into flash...... guess I was a bit off

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 13:19:57 +0000

You might find this to be of interest.

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 13:10:28 +0000

You can import .mpeg movies into Flash MX. I don't think previous versions can. For them, you'll probably have to convert the mpg to an avi using a free convertor, and then import.

Comparatively, swf file sizes are better, and you can control the quality of the movie. Hard to say what size a 30-second clip might be—does it have sound? what are the dimensions? colours? and so on.

Quote: Thanks for your replys guys, I think I will find this forum very usefull.

Cool. And welcome to TWF.