Using Windows Media video clips in iWeb

I purchased Flip4Mac to begin encoding Windows Media
movies for publishing via iWeb. I have discovered it
is not possible to include Windows Media clips in
iWeb pages. iWeb automatically queues QT on any
browser viewing the page with a movie embedded
regardless of the movie's format. Is anyone aware of
a work-around for this?
As much as I like QT and besides the fact that it is
a far superior product to Windows Media, QT has a
very limited presence on PCs where admin. privs. are
required to download software. This excludes a
significant number of corporate machines and
libraries, a big viewing market for my site. Since
my site is basically a video clip library, I'd like
to find a solution for this.
MBP 17in (1 GB RAM), PB G4 15in, PB
G4 12in, iMac G3 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Loyal to Apple since the Apple ][+
YOU ARE RIGHT "MOST" people will see your stuff on a windows PC
HERE IS A SUPER SIMPLE SOLUTION that will pull up the windows media player & play your video
You need to make a non-movie page, any will do. Start your movie and take a photo of it with shift-apple-4. This will give you an image of the movie and also the Windows Media Player frame. Place this image on your page, give it a title etc and make sure the image is selected. Using the inspector, chose Link to File. When you do this, navigate to the wmv file that corresponds. When you upload your site, that file will be stored along with it and when the link is hit the wmv movie will launch
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