Video on an iWeb page

Hi, I know how easy it is to drag and drop a video onto an iWeb page. I believe it uses QuickTime as the player. Is there a way to get a broader reach with the video though? For example, Mac users will have Quicktime so they would be able to see the video on the site by default. But what about those users on *that other OS* who don't have QuickTime. Is there a way to have the video use the default player (or maybe even embed a player into the site itself) such that site visitors won't have to download a plug-in or anything, which might turn them off right off the bat?
Thanks.

Any video format requires a browser plug-in be used to display it.
Flash Media requires Flash Player. Windows Media formats require Windows Media Player. Real Player formats require Real Player and QuickTime formats require QuickTime Player.
iWeb writes page code to use QuickTime. It's installed on all Macs and has been downloaded a half a billion times by PC users. It's bundled with iTunes for PC.
You could make more than one version of your file and hand edit the iWeb page code to include them or "link to file" so they could download the file.
Probably not worth the trouble once you investigate.

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You can place each video on its own page to download faster. Create a page of thumbnails and select each one in turn to make it a hyperlink to the appropriate page in the "link" inspector. You can select "open link in new window" and exclude the "video" pages from the navigation in the "page " inspector. This will prevent overloading the main navigation menu and save you having to have a "back" button on each "video" page.
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QuickTime Media Link format. One of mine as an example:
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Terry Daniels wrote:
Will an iPhone or iTouch play these files?
Have you looked at the video playback requirements on the specifications page? You will find your answer there.
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In obvious terms this means that a computer (PC) that does not have Quicktime player installed will not play the MPEG-4 file.
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there are three displays in photos page:
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This is the JavaScript I use in the ClickMovie page. Feel free to use it.
http://www.wyodor.net/Tutorials/ImageWidget/widget.js
Paste this in [the HTML Snippet|http://www.wyodor.net/Tutorials/ImageWidget//ClickMoviefiles/widget3markup.html]:
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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
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PIECE-O-CAKE!

How to embed Windows video files in iweb

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I'm new to mac and this discussion board has been very helpful. I hope Apple includes a way to embed windows file. There are too many PCs out there to ignore.
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I choose to ignore Windows use until I need to fire up my PC. I don't create files for WMP format, either.
You are leaving out some import "steps" when you say "drop in the html code" because this requires post-publishing edits with a plain text editor.
And the code shown is now out of date as Microsoft "change the rules" (again) for ActiveX content.
This page code would generate an ActiveX alert dialog asking the viewer what to do. Many viewers just click "No" and move on.

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There's an example of one at the buttom of ths page...
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Rather than link to the file, the movie is on a separate web page and uses the code shown on this page...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Photos/Image-New-Window.html
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