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Originally Posted by potter
And you're only going to need to do it once, or maybe twice or something on a tour page? Not thousands of times over like they do on that tube site? Because what they do on the tube site is overkill for what you would need then. Unless I'm mistaken - the CMS for that tube site makes a sort of thumbnail video when the user adds a new video - and that thumbnail is a snapshot type thumbnail with a few screens from the video taken from throughout the video at whatever timed interval.
Your best solution (IMO), is going to have someone write you a flash video player in action script (Actionscript > Timeline Bullshit). The Flash video player plays an FLV from a URL when the SWF is moused over. The URL for the FLV is a flashvar.
This would allow you to reuse the SFW anywhere and as many times as you want on any website you ever have. All you have to do is make an FLV video out of whatever video you want, and when you embed your SWF and set the flashvar to where you have uploaded the FLV.
So it'd be like this:
Code:
<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="/location/to/your/player.swf">
<param name="FlashVars" value="flvurl=/location/to/your/video.flv">
<embed src="/location/to/your/player.swf" width="550" height="400" FlashVars="flvurl=/location/to/your/video.flv">
</embed>
</object>
Everytime you make a new movie and embed it to your website, you'd just change that url variable in the flashvar to point to the FLV.
I'm sure someone on GFY knows action script enough to write up something like this for you. |
that makes sense but why not just dump the video into Flash and do the mouseover code in Actionscript and output as a self contained SWF file to embed on the web page?