Adding .avi file

[Toby]

I am attempting to add a daily movie to my website that is captured from my
webcam. I can go into Custom Components/Windows Media Player and set up WMP
on my web page. My problem is that the .avi file I am wanting to run
automatically uploads to the off-site server that hosts my site. In the
Windows Media Player property tab my only options are to navigate to the
..avi file locally. I hope I am just missing something simple here, but
shouldn't there be a way to tell the Windows Media Player within NOF to
navigate to an .avi file located on the web? (fake example -
http://www.mywebsite/camera.avi)

Any suggestions are appreciated!

Thanks!

Toby
Pagosa Springs, CO

[Nancy O]

1) Can you convert the native AVI file to Windows Media Video (WMV) or
Flash (FLV)? AVI files are awfully big for the web.

2) To pull a video source file from a different location, you'll need to
work with code. This example is for Windows Media Player. Place a table or
text box on your page and hit Ctrl+T to invoke an HTML insertion window.
Then paste in player code as shown below and change VALUE and SRC to the
actual url and filename.

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190"
CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..."
TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv">
<PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
<PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
<EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
SRC="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer"
WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0" ShowDisplay="0"
autostart="0"> </EMBED>
</OBJECT>


--
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com

[Toby]

Good Morning Nancy,

Thanks for taking your time to help me with this! (Again!)

First, the software that runs the camera only saves the movie in the .avi
format - no other options. So yes, I agree it is a big file but for the
time being it's all I can do. I loaded the code you sent and the page loads
fine but there is a conflict running the movie. You can view the page here:
http://www.pagosacam.com/html/a_day_in_the_life.html When the page loads
you will see the Windows Media Player error. Was the code you sent strictly
for .wmv files, or should it also work for .avi files?

Thank you for your help!

Toby

"Nancy O" <nancyoshea1@NOSPAMatt.net> wrote in message
news:gi3jc1$1i2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com...
> 1) Can you convert the native AVI file to Windows Media Video (WMV) or
> Flash (FLV)? AVI files are awfully big for the web.
>
> 2) To pull a video source file from a different location, you'll need to
> work with code. This example is for Windows Media Player. Place a table
> or
> text box on your page and hit Ctrl+T to invoke an HTML insertion window.
> Then paste in player code as shown below and change VALUE and SRC to the
> actual url and filename.
>
> <OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190"
> CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
> STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..."
> TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
> <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv">
> <PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
> <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
> <PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
> <PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
> <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
> SRC="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer"
> WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0"
> ShowDisplay="0"
> autostart="0"> </EMBED>
> </OBJECT>
>
>
> --
> Nancy O.
> Alt-Web Design & Publishing
> www.alt-web.com
>
>

[Twayne]

Took a look just for GPs at the site. From here I first get a warning
window that the file formats are mismatched. I think that says
somewhere, possibly in code, that it's trying to play in one one format
but the actual file format is for another.
Could be the .wmv thing. I think the major point is though, that
different browsers are going to interpret it differently, so your
visitors may or may not have problems, depending. As a result I didn't
bother to try to play it.

FWIW, there are free programs around that will convert .avi to .wmv.
Perhaps that's the answer you need. If you can't locate one or Nancy
doesn't have a suggestion, post back and i'll look up a couple of them
for you. In fact, won't the native MovieMaker in XP do that? Load an
mvi and save to a wmv? I've removed it from my machine and so can't
tell, but I used to use it prior to switchimg to a professional
application.

HTH

Twayne


> Good Morning Nancy,
>
> Thanks for taking your time to help me with this! (Again!)
>
> First, the software that runs the camera only saves the movie in the
> .avi format - no other options. So yes, I agree it is a big file but
> for the time being it's all I can do. I loaded the code you sent and
> the page loads fine but there is a conflict running the movie. You
> can view the page here:
> http://www.pagosacam.com/html/a_day_in_the_life.html When the page
> loads you will see the Windows Media Player error. Was the code you
> sent strictly for .wmv files, or should it also work for .avi files?
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Toby
>
> "Nancy O" <nancyoshea1@NOSPAMatt.net> wrote in message
> news:gi3jc1$1i2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com...
>> 1) Can you convert the native AVI file to Windows Media Video (WMV)
>> or Flash (FLV)? AVI files are awfully big for the web.
>>
>> 2) To pull a video source file from a different location, you'll
>> need to work with code. This example is for Windows Media Player.
>> Place a table or
>> text box on your page and hit Ctrl+T to invoke an HTML insertion
>> window. Then paste in player code as shown below and change VALUE
>> and SRC to the actual url and filename.
>>
>> <OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190"
>> CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
>> STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..."
>> TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
>> <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv">
>> <PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
>> <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
>> <PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
>> <PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
>> <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
>> SRC="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer"
>> WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0"
>> ShowDisplay="0"
>> autostart="0"> </EMBED>
>> </OBJECT>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nancy O.
>> Alt-Web Design & Publishing
>> www.alt-web.com

[Toby]

Hello Twayne,

Thanks for the reply and suggestions. Here is part of my dilemma - My
camera and software (Capture Host by StarDot) is several years old and only
offers the option of saving the movie as an .avi file. The camera snaps a
picture every three minutes and sends it directly to my offsite website
server. It will keep 3 days worth of moves automatically. I want to keep
this fully automated so I don't have to fool with it each and every day. I
don't know of an automatic way to redirect the upload of the .avi file to a
program that will convert the .avi to a .wmv, and then resend it to the
server. Maybe there is a product that would allow me to do this, but it is
not in my budget (money or time) to do this in the near future.

My goal is to take advantage of the "tools" I have, (Capture Host software)
so I would like to figure out the error in the script that Nancy sent. I
had a "duh" moment and realized how I could cut the size of the .avi file
down substantially. I have changed the camera recording times to NOT record
all night long. No point in recording 12 hours of dark. Duh!

Anyway, if someone can help me figure out the glitch in the code I would be
most appreciative.

Thanks for everyone's time!

Toby
Pagosa Springs, Colorado
www.pagosacam.com



"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:gi6oko$c601@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Took a look just for GPs at the site. From here I first get a warning
> window that the file formats are mismatched. I think that says somewhere,
> possibly in code, that it's trying to play in one one format but the
> actual file format is for another.
> Could be the .wmv thing. I think the major point is though, that
> different browsers are going to interpret it differently, so your visitors
> may or may not have problems, depending. As a result I didn't bother to
> try to play it.
>
> FWIW, there are free programs around that will convert .avi to .wmv.
> Perhaps that's the answer you need. If you can't locate one or Nancy
> doesn't have a suggestion, post back and i'll look up a couple of them for
> you. In fact, won't the native MovieMaker in XP do that? Load an mvi and
> save to a wmv? I've removed it from my machine and so can't tell, but I
> used to use it prior to switchimg to a professional application.
>
> HTH
>
> Twayne
>
>
>> Good Morning Nancy,
>>
>> Thanks for taking your time to help me with this! (Again!)
>>
>> First, the software that runs the camera only saves the movie in the
>> .avi format - no other options. So yes, I agree it is a big file but
>> for the time being it's all I can do. I loaded the code you sent and
>> the page loads fine but there is a conflict running the movie. You
>> can view the page here:
>> http://www.pagosacam.com/html/a_day_in_the_life.html When the page
>> loads you will see the Windows Media Player error. Was the code you
>> sent strictly for .wmv files, or should it also work for .avi files?
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Toby
>>
>> "Nancy O" <nancyoshea1@NOSPAMatt.net> wrote in message
>> news:gi3jc1$1i2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com...
>>> 1) Can you convert the native AVI file to Windows Media Video (WMV)
>>> or Flash (FLV)? AVI files are awfully big for the web.
>>>
>>> 2) To pull a video source file from a different location, you'll
>>> need to work with code. This example is for Windows Media Player. Place
>>> a table or
>>> text box on your page and hit Ctrl+T to invoke an HTML insertion
>>> window. Then paste in player code as shown below and change VALUE
>>> and SRC to the actual url and filename.
>>>
>>> <OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190"
>>> CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
>>> STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..."
>>> TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
>>> <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv">
>>> <PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
>>> <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
>>> <PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
>>> <PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
>>> <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
>>> SRC="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer"
>>> WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0"
>>> ShowDisplay="0"
>>> autostart="0"> </EMBED>
>>> </OBJECT>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nancy O.
>>> Alt-Web Design & Publishing
>>> www.alt-web.com
>
>
>

[Nancy O]

Toby,
Here is the code to embed your avi in your page. NOTE: Even on high speed
connections, it will take considerable time to download the 15.7mb avi file
before the video can play. Be patient.

<object id="MediaPlayer1"
CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.
cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows® Media Player components..."
type="application/x-oleobject" width="280" height="256">
<param name="fileName"
value="http://www.kkpaddywhacks.com/MoviesCamera1-2.1.avi">
<param name="animationatStart" value="true">
<param name="transparentatStart" value="true">
<param name="autoStart" value="true">
<param name="showControls" value="true">
<param name="Volume" value="-450">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
src="http://www.kkpaddywhacks.com/MoviesCamera1-2.1.avi" name="MediaPlayer1"
width=280 height=256 autostart=1 showcontrols=1 volume=-450></embed>
</object>


--
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com

[Toby]

Hi Nancy,

Thanks for sending the new code! It seems to be working just fine. I will
finish setting up the page and will let you know when it is completed so you
can view the "thrilling" Pagosacam movies. I realize they are not terribly
exciting, but hey, it's another draw to our site.

Thanks again for your help with this! You have helped me in the past and I
really appreciate your time and assistance!

Toby
Pagosa Springs, Colorado
www.pagosacam.com

"Nancy O" <nancyoshea1@NOSPAMatt.net> wrote in message
news:gi8ppg$ivc5@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Toby,
> Here is the code to embed your avi in your page. NOTE: Even on high
> speed
> connections, it will take considerable time to download the 15.7mb avi
> file
> before the video can play. Be patient.
>
> <object id="MediaPlayer1"
> CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
> codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.
> cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
> standby="Loading Microsoft Windows® Media Player components..."
> type="application/x-oleobject" width="280" height="256">
> <param name="fileName"
> value="http://www.kkpaddywhacks.com/MoviesCamera1-2.1.avi">
> <param name="animationatStart" value="true">
> <param name="transparentatStart" value="true">
> <param name="autoStart" value="true">
> <param name="showControls" value="true">
> <param name="Volume" value="-450">
> <embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
> pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
> src="http://www.kkpaddywhacks.com/MoviesCamera1-2.1.avi"
> name="MediaPlayer1"
> width=280 height=256 autostart=1 showcontrols=1 volume=-450></embed>
> </object>
>
>
> --
> Nancy O.
> Alt-Web Design & Publishing
> www.alt-web.com
>
>

[Carl Kruck]

Toby

There's lots of free programs out there to convert videos to other formats,
Any Video Converter is one of the best free ones:
http://www.download.com/Any-Video-Co...-10661456.html

I would highly recommend converting to WMV, and you can host on your own
site, or you can even host on a site like www.vimeo.com if you intend to use
alot of videos for your site. AVC will convert the AVI to another format
that will make your site visitors happy

Carl


"Toby" <toby@kkpaddywhacks.com> wrote in message
news:gi6dp4$aac2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Good Morning Nancy,
>
> Thanks for taking your time to help me with this! (Again!)
>
> First, the software that runs the camera only saves the movie in the .avi
> format - no other options. So yes, I agree it is a big file but for the
> time being it's all I can do. I loaded the code you sent and the page
> loads fine but there is a conflict running the movie. You can view the
> page here: http://www.pagosacam.com/html/a_day_in_the_life.html When the
> page loads you will see the Windows Media Player error. Was the code you
> sent strictly for .wmv files, or should it also work for .avi files?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Toby
>
> "Nancy O" <nancyoshea1@NOSPAMatt.net> wrote in message
> news:gi3jc1$1i2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com...
>> 1) Can you convert the native AVI file to Windows Media Video (WMV) or
>> Flash (FLV)? AVI files are awfully big for the web.
>>
>> 2) To pull a video source file from a different location, you'll need to
>> work with code. This example is for Windows Media Player. Place a table
>> or
>> text box on your page and hit Ctrl+T to invoke an HTML insertion window.
>> Then paste in player code as shown below and change VALUE and SRC to the
>> actual url and filename.
>>
>> <OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190"
>> CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
>> STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..."
>> TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
>> <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv">
>> <PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
>> <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
>> <PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
>> <PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
>> <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
>> SRC="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer"
>> WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0"
>> ShowDisplay="0"
>> autostart="0"> </EMBED>
>> </OBJECT>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nancy O.
>> Alt-Web Design & Publishing
>> www.alt-web.com
>>
>>
>
>

[Toby]

Hi Carl,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Thanks for the info! I will
check it out. My concern is that in the perfect happy world, this will all
be done automatically. Is there a product you know of that I can load on to
my offsite web server that Capture Host can ftp the.avi file to. Then in
theory the file gets converted to.wmv and all of my viewers are happy
campers because of how quickly it loads. I don't really even know what I am
talking about, but hopefully that makes some kind if sense.

Thanks for the reply!

Toby
Pagosa Springs, CO (21" of snow so far this week!)
www.pagosacam.com


"Carl Kruck" <designer@metaweboz.com> wrote in message
news:gi9fne$ktr4@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Toby
>
> There's lots of free programs out there to convert videos to other
> formats, Any Video Converter is one of the best free ones:
> http://www.download.com/Any-Video-Co...-10661456.html
>
> I would highly recommend converting to WMV, and you can host on your own
> site, or you can even host on a site like www.vimeo.com if you intend to
> use alot of videos for your site. AVC will convert the AVI to another
> format that will make your site visitors happy
>
> Carl
>
>
> "Toby" <toby@kkpaddywhacks.com> wrote in message
> news:gi6dp4$aac2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
>> Good Morning Nancy,
>>
>> Thanks for taking your time to help me with this! (Again!)
>>
>> First, the software that runs the camera only saves the movie in the .avi
>> format - no other options. So yes, I agree it is a big file but for the
>> time being it's all I can do. I loaded the code you sent and the page
>> loads fine but there is a conflict running the movie. You can view the
>> page here: http://www.pagosacam.com/html/a_day_in_the_life.html When the
>> page loads you will see the Windows Media Player error. Was the code you
>> sent strictly for .wmv files, or should it also work for .avi files?
>>
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Toby
>>
>> "Nancy O" <nancyoshea1@NOSPAMatt.net> wrote in message
>> news:gi3jc1$1i2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com...
>>> 1) Can you convert the native AVI file to Windows Media Video (WMV) or
>>> Flash (FLV)? AVI files are awfully big for the web.
>>>
>>> 2) To pull a video source file from a different location, you'll need to
>>> work with code. This example is for Windows Media Player. Place a table
>>> or
>>> text box on your page and hit Ctrl+T to invoke an HTML insertion window.
>>> Then paste in player code as shown below and change VALUE and SRC to the
>>> actual url and filename.
>>>
>>> <OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190"
>>> CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
>>> STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..."
>>> TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
>>> <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv">
>>> <PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
>>> <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
>>> <PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
>>> <PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
>>> <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
>>> SRC="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer"
>>> WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0"
>>> ShowDisplay="0"
>>> autostart="0"> </EMBED>
>>> </OBJECT>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nancy O.
>>> Alt-Web Design & Publishing
>>> www.alt-web.com
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

[Carl Kruck]

As far as I know, there's no program like that that works from the web
server for converting videos on the fly, because it needs Windows video
codecs to convert the file, which you can only do on your local machine
Carl

"Toby" <toby@kkpaddywhacks.com> wrote in message
news:gigt4r$jn91@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Hi Carl,
>
> Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Thanks for the info! I will
> check it out. My concern is that in the perfect happy world, this will
> all be done automatically. Is there a product you know of that I can load
> on to my offsite web server that Capture Host can ftp the.avi file to.
> Then in theory the file gets converted to.wmv and all of my viewers are
> happy campers because of how quickly it loads. I don't really even know
> what I am talking about, but hopefully that makes some kind if sense.
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> Toby
> Pagosa Springs, CO (21" of snow so far this week!)
> www.pagosacam.com
>
>
> "Carl Kruck" <designer@metaweboz.com> wrote in message
> news:gi9fne$ktr4@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
>> Toby
>>
>> There's lots of free programs out there to convert videos to other
>> formats, Any Video Converter is one of the best free ones:
>> http://www.download.com/Any-Video-Co...-10661456.html
>>
>> I would highly recommend converting to WMV, and you can host on your own
>> site, or you can even host on a site like www.vimeo.com if you intend to
>> use alot of videos for your site. AVC will convert the AVI to another
>> format that will make your site visitors happy
>>
>> Carl
>>
>>
>> "Toby" <toby@kkpaddywhacks.com> wrote in message
>> news:gi6dp4$aac2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
>>> Good Morning Nancy,
>>>
>>> Thanks for taking your time to help me with this! (Again!)
>>>
>>> First, the software that runs the camera only saves the movie in the
>>> .avi format - no other options. So yes, I agree it is a big file but
>>> for the time being it's all I can do. I loaded the code you sent and
>>> the page loads fine but there is a conflict running the movie. You can
>>> view the page here: http://www.pagosacam.com/html/a_day_in_the_life.html
>>> When the page loads you will see the Windows Media Player error. Was
>>> the code you sent strictly for .wmv files, or should it also work for
>>> .avi files?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help!
>>>
>>> Toby
>>>
>>> "Nancy O" <nancyoshea1@NOSPAMatt.net> wrote in message
>>> news:gi3jc1$1i2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com...
>>>> 1) Can you convert the native AVI file to Windows Media Video (WMV) or
>>>> Flash (FLV)? AVI files are awfully big for the web.
>>>>
>>>> 2) To pull a video source file from a different location, you'll need
>>>> to
>>>> work with code. This example is for Windows Media Player. Place a
>>>> table or
>>>> text box on your page and hit Ctrl+T to invoke an HTML insertion
>>>> window.
>>>> Then paste in player code as shown below and change VALUE and SRC to
>>>> the
>>>> actual url and filename.
>>>>
>>>> <OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190"
>>>> CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
>>>> STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..."
>>>> TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
>>>> <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv">
>>>> <PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
>>>> <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
>>>> <PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
>>>> <PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
>>>> <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
>>>> SRC="http://example.com/videofilename.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer"
>>>> WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0"
>>>> ShowDisplay="0"
>>>> autostart="0"> </EMBED>
>>>> </OBJECT>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Nancy O.
>>>> Alt-Web Design & Publishing
>>>> www.alt-web.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>