Embedding Videos in Dreamweaver

[abd123]

Alright guys you know for dreamweaver, How do I emb the vids in? Like put the videos into Dreamweaver.

I'm going to have a IT SAC on monday :/.

[paulsterio]

Alright guys you know for dreamweaver, How do I emb the vids in? Like put the videos into Dreamweaver.

I'm going to have a IT SAC on monday :/.

Convert it to flash and embed the flash using the embed flash option, that's the only thing I can think of :\

[Lasercookie]

Split the topic from: practice materials/sac for IT APPS Unit 3/4

Converting to flash is probably the best way. Not only because there's a neat button for it, but it would mean that you would be able to have a lot more users being able to use the site without any problems (since having Flash is quite common), rather than having to deal with some video plugin that not all users would have (installing a plugin is a pain for most users, may even be a process that some users might not be able to carry out due to low technical knowledge). So yeah, that's something you could mention somewhere in your testing table during the development phase (it'd relate to satisfying evaluation criteria etc.)

What format are the videos in? There's the HTML 'embed' tag. For example:

<embed src="video.swf" width="500" height="400" name="video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" />

This tag supports .swf (flash), .wmv, .mov and .mpeg. Obviously the values for the type and pluginspage attributes would change depending on format.

If you're using HTML5, then there's also the new <video> tag (supports a few other formats, I don't know them off the top of my head though). 

edit: added a detail a bit more specific than 'somewhere'.