I'd like to have a couple 5min videos play on my site, one after another so that the user loads the page: the video starts right away & the next one loads and plays right away, as well.
Is it possible to get this functionality with iWeb?
Thank you in advance for your time and help!
RAx
Using an xml playlist you can arrange the files to play sequentially, loop, autoplay and random play.
The one shown on this page is actually a movie player converted to audio. Making the video version is just the same ...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Music-Players/XML-Playlist.html
You can see that the Beelden and Modieus skins actually show a thumbnail of the poster image in the playlist if required.
There's an example of the old style JW playlist on this page...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Movie-Video/Movie-Jukebox.html
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Have a look :
http://www.wyodor.net/mfi/cultureclub/Movies.html
http://www.wyodor.net/Tutorials/ImageWidget/ClickMovie.html
And to see how it's done, the JavaScripts :
http://www.wyodor.net/Tutorials/ImageWidgetAssets/widget_cultureclub.js
http://www.wyodor.net/Tutorials/ImageWidgetAssets/widget.js
Feel free to use them anyway you like.
And here are some Apple tech documments :
QuickTime: Embed Tag Attributes
QuickTime: Embedding QuickTime for web delivery
@Roddy
Thanks for the response. Is that /your/ site? Was just uncertain as to whether or not it was secure - didn't really want to submit my info until it was clear (that apple icon looks rather menacing!).
@Wyodor
Well, that is exactly what I'm looking to do, but that is far, far, far beyond my knowledge: even with the scripts, I woudln't know where to begin.
However, I will file them away & hope to one day be able to read them, so thank you very much for the response & sharing the work you did.
All the best,
Rax
ps. Wonderful selection of videos: who's the Arabic singer? & where did you find all these things? Mezmorizingly eclectic!
The icon is supposed to be welcoming!
:S Sorry! Something about their hollow look & inward angle that reminds me of a carved pupkin - I wouldn't take me as a litmus test for "society" though, I tend to be unreliable in these maters!
In case anyone else stumbles upon this post, out of interest: From the "YouTube Embeded Player Parameters" page: In short, you just append "&loop=1" to the end of the url & you get the desired feature (if the video is in a playlist, as mentioned).
loop0101loopplaylistloop1playlisthttp://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID?version=3&loop=1&playlist=VIDEO_ID
The page has a host of other embedding parameters that actually offers a great deal of control over the appearance of your video (not to mention a much easier means of getting subsequent video play).
Definitely worth checking out, no coding knowledge necessary - very straight forward.
Cheers,
Rax
Sequential auto-paly of videos on iWeb?