Hello

some websites like metacafe or flurl have can have a user choose a video and play it on their website.. with controls such as play/pause fastforward and rewind

how can i do this with some clips that i have?

I really looked around here and on the net but couldnt find answers

and does this method save on bandwidth as compared to downloading the movies?

I have a dedicated server (linux)

thank you

You need to have a streaming server to allow fastforward and rewind. Streaming is preferred for high volume video web sites but not necessary for lower volume.

having the video paused, forwarded, etc has nothing to do with "streaming server"....you just use simple embed tag for your clips. However, this kind of files can take lots of bandwidth especially if you don't protect your files from being leeched.

its just the embed tag? I thought u wanted some software to convert files to a special format

I saw there is a software called camtix ... it converts more than a few files formats to a flash file ...

and there is also wimpy... but this one only for mp3

so i'm wondering if you guys know anything else or if i'm totally not looking in the right direction

i dont need anything fancy... just a way to play short clips on my site without having to worry about excessive bandwidth useage

thanks a lot

well, if you want your video files to be some other formats, I am sure there are programs for it. But if you want to just simply show the video with play, forward, backward, etc...then just plain embed tag. clips with format like .wma....can be displayed with embed tags.

how many clips you have? if you plan to have many then you have to think about bandwidth as well as the server on which your site is hosted.

Surf around on this site, i am sure many people do this - I am not interested in video stuff myself.

.wma is for audio not video. If you force the user to download the entire video before it starts then yes, you can fastforward or rewind but it is the most user unfriendly way to present video. Progressive download will allow the video to start before the entire video is downloaded but doesn't allow fastforward or rewind.

.wma is for audio not video. If you force the user to download the entire video before it starts then yes, you can fastforward or rewind but it is the most user unfriendly way to present video. Progressive download will allow the video to start before the entire video is downloaded but doesn't allow fastforward or rewind.

sorry, but you are totally wrong! I thought you should've known since your site hosting some video there :)

Here is an example of wma :)

http://www.danielswaterproofing.com/html/wma_video_low.html

no forcing downloading: you can still forward and rewind :smash:

orbitz,
I'm not sure what you're disagreeing about. Although, your web site says "wma" you've embedded a wmv file, a video file.

yah i meant wmv...what ever it is ...my point is..let's get back to the user's question:

you don't need to stream to have forward/rewind..simply embed would do.
The site is not mine btw.