How to Embed Files When Writing for Sangent

submitted by Sang on 05.2.2006

I felt like I didn’t do a thorough enough job on my last post on how to show videos, so I’ll do it again.

First, go to Start -> Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View tab -> make sure “Hide extensions for known file types” is unchecked

How to Embed .wmv, .avi, .mpeg (basically anything that doesn’t end in .swf or .flv):

Upload your file to my server.
Copy the following HTML code:

<object id="MediaPlayer1" CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows® Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject" width="280" height="256"> <param name="fileName" value="REPLACEWITHFILENAMEHERE"> <param name="animationatStart" value="true"> <param name="transparentatStart" value="true"> <param name="autoStart" value="true"> <param name="showControls" value="true"> <param name="Volume" value="-450"> <embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" src="REPLACEWITHFILENAMEHERE" name="MediaPlayer1" width=280 height=256 autostart=1 showcontrols=1 volume=-450></embed></object>
Paste what you copied into the post box
Go to the Browse tab and copy and paste the file name. Right click -> select Copy link address, Copy link location, or something to that effect.
Replace REPLACEWITHFILENAMEHERE from the HTML code above with the file’s actual name. In other words, paste what you just copied from number 4.
OPTIONAL: If you know the dimensions of the movie, change those as well in the HTML code. Usually, you can find what they are by right-clicking on them from your hard drive and going to Properties -> Summary tab. The first number is the width and the second number is the height. If Windows doesn’t list them for whatever reason, here are some default dimensions (click to view size):
- 160 x 120 (Similar to the thumbnails with the black bar found on the left of my posts)
- 240 x 180
- 320 x 240 (the size of the majority of the video clips on this site)
- 400 x 300
- 480 x 360
- 720 x 576
- 768 x 576
- 800 x 600

If the file you uploaded is a .flv file, here are your instructions:

Upload your file to my server.
Copy the following HTML code:

<div id="flashcontent"> <strong>You need to upgrade your Flash Player</strong><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">Download the latest version of Flash Player</a> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ var so = new SWFObject("/vid/flvplayer.swf?file=REPLACEWITHFILENAMEHERE", "sotester", "320", "260", "8", "#000000"); so.write("flashcontent"); // ]]> </script>
Paste what you copied into the post box
Go to the Browse tab and copy and paste the file name. Right click -> select Copy link address, Copy link location, or something to that effect.
Replace REPLACEWITHFILENAMEHERE from the HTML code above with the file’s actual name. In other words, paste what you just copied from number 4.
OPTIONAL: If you know the dimensions of the movie, change those as well in the HTML code. Usually, you can find what they are by right-clicking on them from your hard drive and going to Properties -> Summary tab. The first number is the width and the second number is the height. If Windows doesn’t list them for whatever reason, here are some default dimensions (click to view size):
- 160 x 120 (Similar to the thumbnails with the black bar found on the left of my posts)
- 240 x 180
- 320 x 240 (the size of the majority of the video clips on this site)
- 400 x 300
- 480 x 360
- 720 x 576
- 768 x 576
- 800 x 600