Embedding Videos!!
Here is a kind of generalized tutorial…Embedding
And another one…HTML code
Within the code you can change/add these…
autostart=”…”
This sets whether the file should start playing straight away. It can be true or false. If you set it to false the file will not play until the user presses the play button. I would advise that you do let the reader decide when to turn it on, as having a song blaring unexpectedly out of your speakers is usually a bad thing.
loop=”…”
This specifies whether the file will start again once it has finished and loop, or stop after one play. True or false. Or number (ex.”3”)
Dreamweaver instructions!! I haven’t tried them, but I found these and in theory they should work!
1. Click in the section of your Dreamweaver document where you want the video to appear.
2. Pull down Insert | Media | ActiveX. A small placeholder widget will appear in your document.
3. In the widget’s Properties panel, specify a width of 320 and a height of 256. Be sure the width is equal to the actual width of your movie, while the height is 16 pixels higher than the height of your movie — the 16px is the height of the QuickTime playback controller.
4. Select the checkbox labeled “Embed”
5. Type the name of your poster frame file into the “Src” field (or click on the folder icon and navigate to the file).
6. Click the Parameters button. Click in the Parameter column and type “href.” Click in the Value column and type the name of your movie file. Click the “+” sign to add another parameter called “autoplay” and give it a value of “true.” Click “+” one more time and add a parameter called “target” with a value of “myself.” You should be looking at a Properties panel and Parameters panel that look something like the image below.
7. Click OK to set the parameters.
Video embed parameters options
Note that neither the movie nor the poster frame file will display in DreamWeaver. Save your document and open it in a web browser to check your work. If all has gone as planned, you should see your poster frame as the document loads. Clicking the poster frame should cause the video to load in its place. It’s a good idea to put a text cue under the poster frame, saying something like “Click image to begin playback.”
You will likely notice one remaining issue: You’ve embedded a one-frame movie, but the user needs to click on the image portion of it to begin playback. And yet there’s a playback controller staring the user in the face. Most users will be tempted to click that controller, but will end up viewing only your one-frame poster movie if they do so. To make this problem go away, add one more parameter to the list above:
controller = false
You’ll still get a controller on the destination video, but the “confusing” controller on the one-frame video will go away.
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