HTML VIDEO QUESTION

[PeQuApItChEr310]

Hey i was wondeirng if theres a code where you could have the video on your
site automaticly fast foward to a certain point in the video or have the video
automaticly start from a certain point??

[Harlan Messinger]

PeQuApItChEr310 wrote:

Hey i was wondeirng if theres a code where you could have the video on your
site automaticly fast foward to a certain point in the video or have the video
automaticly start from a certain point??

HTML doesn't know anything about video at all. If you're using an EMBED
or OBJECT tag to place a video on a web page, and you know that your
users' browsers will be using a specific plug-in to play the video, and
the plug-in comes from a software manufacturer that offers documentation
on what attributes to use in the EMBED tag or what PARAM tags to use
inside the OBJECT tag, then you're in luck. But that's extremely
unlikely, and it will only work for users that happen to have that
particular plug-in. Bottom line: it's best not to display video in a web
page, but to provide a link to the media resource, and then let the
user's computer pop up whichever player is installed on it that can
handle that video's format.

[Jan Roland Eriksson]

On 01 Feb 2005 21:04:51 GMT, pe*************@aol.com (PeQuApItChEr310)
wrote:

Hey i was wondeirng if theres a code where you could have the
video on your site automaticly fast foward to a certain point
in the video or have the video automaticly start from a certain
point??

No; not with the use of (X)HTML markup.

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[Spartanicus]

pe*************@aol.com (PeQuApItChEr310) wrote:

Hey i was wondeirng if theres a code where you could have the video on your
site automaticly fast foward to a certain point in the video or have the video
automaticly start from a certain point??

Certain media players can be scripted to perform such functions, but
assuming this is a *web* site there is no way of knowing what media
player the user uses, thus attempting to do this is folly.

Edit the video so that it starts where you want instead.

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Spartanicus