Movie Files
Adding Movies to Web Pages
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It is just as easy to put links to movies on your web pages
as it was to add links to sounds and external image files.
A Simple Example
For example, get the files named simpsons-2001.mpg
and rocket.mpg:
- For each of these files,
hold the right mouse button down over the link.
- Select "Save Target As
. . .", in the resulting dialog box.
- Specify to save with the
default names (simpsons-2001.mpg and rocket.mpg).
- Select your homepage directory
for the destination, and then click "Save". (These files
are 308 kB and 105 kB long, respectively, so this may
take a while if your link is slow.)
Then we can link to the movies by adding the following
to your homepage file:
<hr>
<h2> Some Movie Files </h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="simpsons-2001.mpg">
Homer 2001</a>
<li>
<a href="rocket.mpg">Rocket</a>
</ul>
<hr>
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Save this, point the browser to your homepage file, and
reload. You should see something like the following:
In this HTML, <ul> starts an un-numbered list, </ul>
ends the un-numbered list, and <li> precedes each
separate member of the list. In this example we have put
only two elements in the list, but we could add any number
by using more <li> lines.
Adding Movie Links
Now use the preceding example as a guideline to add some
more movie links to your homepage. Here are some movie resources
to help you out:
Yahoo Listing of Movie Archives
http://dir.yahoo.com/computers_and_internet/software/multimedia/video/
Apple's QuickTime Movie
http://www.apple.com/quicktime
MPEG Movie Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/animation/mpeg/berkeley-mirror/movies
Remember though, that even a movie of 30 seconds duration
will take many minutes to download over a typical modem
connection. Thus, if you are developing Web pages intended
to be used with modem-level connections, you should use
movies judiciously. (As noted previously, these large file
sizes are a primary motivation for streaming video, and
audio, where possible.) It is also courteous to indicate
the length of large files like movies, so that viewers know
that they are about to initiate a download that may take
some time.
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