Embedding .avi in a page?

[Jakez]

Anyone have a code or know a site/page doing this that I can look at? There are plenty of examples within a Google search but none of them have successfully played the avi file.

[candyflip]

<video> but that's for HTML5

[fris]

i would stay away from .avi embeds could take a while on some peoples browsers

[ArsewithClass]

definatly try for flv as avi is huge on bandwidth & download speed

[Jakez]

Yeah yeah I know avi is bad, but in this case I'm trying to get a successful embed for .avi videos, but I've tried everything and have yet to get one to play.

<video> but that's for HTML5

HTML5 is gonna be the shit :drool:

[fatfoo]

You can embed YouTube videos with the codes they provide, if you want to do it.

[nyllover]

As far as i know, AVI can't be a stream so people will have to download the full video before being able to see it on the page... Div-x has a solution (but it's a plugin)

[Jakez]

Lol, is it really this difficult? Damn, is it 2010 or what.

[DamianJ]

definatly try for flv as avi is huge on bandwidth & download speed

Gaz! Glad to see you're back and as ever, being really helpful to the noobs.

Now, can you explain to everyone WHY a 250 meg flv is lighter on bandwidth and downloads faster than a 250 meg avi?

Thanks.

Damian

[VGeorgie]

Yeah yeah I know avi is bad, but in this case I'm trying to get a successful embed for .avi videos, but I've tried everything and have yet to get one to play.

In addition to what others have said about having to download the entire file before it will play, AVI embeds require smart OBJECT tag switching if you want to target more than just Windows. You need to embed the Windows Media Player or Quicktime object (maybe Realplayer if the system detects it), but you wouldn't want to do both/all.

Google can expend time to do player embeds, but for regular folk, it's usually not worth the trouble, unless you know most/all of your surfers are Windows users, or if you use a different embedding for non-Windows.

[VGeorgie]

Now, can you explain to everyone WHY a 250 meg flv is lighter on bandwidth and downloads faster than a 250 meg avi?

Because on an FLV file the bytes are smaller???

[LoveSandra]

definatly try for flv as avi is huge on bandwidth & download speed

[Bird]

play it in a flash container

[seeandsee]

there are some old media Player embeddeds , but they are shity

[ArsewithClass]

Because on an FLV file the bytes are smaller???

Exactly

[munki]

Save yourself the headaches, and compatibility issues... redump the avis into h264 or standard flv and use a flash streamer/player.

[fris]

.avi has to download the whole video, flv you can stream

[VGeorgie]

I'm going to guess Jakez needs AVI because of quality issues - FLVs particularly are crap when trying to do program demos.

You can use WMVs, and encode to about 500-600kbps. Those can be streamed (the index to the streams come at the beginning of the file), but unlike FLV the user cannot seek to a different timepoint until all the video has downloaded (the index to the frames themselves are at the end of the file, just like AVI).

H.264 can be a solution if you get the encoding parameters right.

If you're not doing something like a on-screen program demo hard to understand why it has to be AVI. AVI is a desktop format, designed well before the Web.

[SmokeyTheBear]

<embed src=file.avi>