Viewing Drag and Drop Videos
Drag and Drop Videos
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User: Guest 12 years ago
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| I would like to be able to drag and drop videos on to the page (like iWeb), instead of uploading it to YouTube or linking to the video file | |
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User: Roddy 12 years ago
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iWeb uses javascript and the QuickTime plugin to achieve this. It was never satisfactory because a significant number of Windows users either couldn't or wouldn't install QuickTime. Now that HTML5 video has been implemented in all modern browsers, this is more preferable since it doesn't require a plugin and therefore doesn't use any processor power - unlike QT and Flash. Example in EasyWeb... http://roddymckay.com/EasyWeb/test/html5-video.html I dare say somebody will come up with a widget to implement HTML5 video but it is not a good solution for a couple of reasons... As you can see from the above example, HTML5 requires that you load three versions of the file - MP4, OGV and WebM. This means that you need to convert your original movie file into these three formats. Uploading 3 versions of every file to the EasyWeb server will soon use up the basic file size allocation if you have a few movies. The movie won't play in older versions of IE - which a lot of people still use - unless you employ the HTM5 Shiv which provides basic HTML5 styling for Internet Explorer 6-9, Safari 4 (and iPhone 3) and Firefox 3. More info about the Shiv here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_Shiv If EasyWeb was to use an HTML5 player widget, the html5shiv.js would really need to be hosted on the Rage server so that the user wouldn't have to install and link to it. This still wouldn't overcome the limitations referred to above. A far better solution is to use an HTML5 player that will fallback to flash for Firefox and older versions of Internet Explorer. This means more people will be able to play your movie and you only need a single file - an MP4. Example... http://roddymckay.com/EasyWeb/videojs.html ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: eugenejazzy 12 years ago
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Roddy, I am confused about something. (Inserting HtML5 Video into an EasyWeb page is just a question of dragging the movie files and poster image into Assets, control clicking each one to the the relative URL and pasting the code into an HTML Snippet.) What is the meaning of "control clicking each one to the the relative URL" from your writing above. Of course I understand that I can place the 3 video formats into the assets list but after that...... what happens when I control click to the relative URL. What is the relative URL or where is it. Next where do I get the code to place in the html widget box for the video. Is it from youtube, my own server????? Totally confused here! Would really appreciate it if you could direct me..... |
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User: Christopher 12 years ago
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Until EasyWeb implements features like video, audio or blogs, it would be really helpful if they offered tutorial on how to implement them using third parties. Don't ya think?
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