video file question

Maccattack

I have some very short video files that I want to put on my website so that they play automagically when someone visits the page.

the sight host seems to only allow youtube videos. so that wont work.

so should i convert them to gifs or flash or something?


If so how???

daragh.king

You can use youtube to do this.

First upload the clip to youtube.
Get the embed code from the youtube page of your video.
Paste the code into your website where you want it.
You now have to edit this code a small bit.
Where ever you have the text "www.youtube.com/v/asdfghjkl" add "&autoplay=1" to the end of it. Here is an example:
"<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sbqk8QbpETg&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sbqk8QbpETg&hl=en&fs=1&&quot; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>"

"<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sbqk8QbpETg&autoplay=1=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sbqk8QbpETg&autoplay=1=en&fs=1&&quot; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>"

Maccattack

thanks man. but thats not working for some reason.

any other suggestions?

daragh.king

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=56107