How to embed video...

[HAMMER]

Hey folks. I was wondering if there was an easy way to embed video that does NOT use the google video or youtube, or any other market video packages for that matter. I simply want to embed a video on my site. I find that Google video does not work well with Firefox the way I want it to, and Youtube does not embed videos without their big obnoxious logo in it.

Any tips? I need it to work in both IE and Firefox...

Take a look at my homepage, and you'll see what I'm trying to do, with the Come Fly with Me video. I want to get rid of the control bar and just have a video running there...

[Grimmy]

I think you can do that with flash, but been ages since I messed around with flash.

[Bingo]

I think flash will be your best bet. I don't know how to do it myself, but I know it's a relatively small footprint with large cross-platform abilties.

[BobtheCkroach]

You might have an easier option.

Go to your source code...look at the embed line that you have there...

It'll look like this:


<embed id="VideoPlayback" style="width:155px;height:110px" allowFullScreen="true" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-4025935737227155602&hl=en&fs=true&autoPlay=true&loop=true&playerMode=simple" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed>

If you look at the
src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-4025935737227155602&hl=en&fs=true&autoPlay=true&loop=true&playerMode=simple" part, change playerMode=simple to playerMode=mini

I think you'll find that does what you want. At least, when I loaded it, that's what I got. No visible controls at all that I can see.

[HAMMER]

Thank you much for that reply, Bob, but I did try that. Problem is, it doesn't work in Mozilla. Blank screen...any thoughts?

[SASQUATCH]

Hammer I would use Flash because you can also convert it to flv which takes up less space and bandwidth. Flash is easy for the most part when it comes to displaying movies because they have a tool that doesn't really require to write any codes just add the source to the property.

BTW BobtheCkroach is on the right track but not sure how it's really done because I haven't done it that way in awhile. I use Flash and Flex 3 when it comes to showing off my movies or for clients.

This here is free and might help provide what you need.
http://www.videospark.com/index.php?sp=18

Sample done in flash cs3, which is done with the Flv component.
http://www.quantunet.com/flash8/skills/sample/using_%20the%20video_ui.html