Website Videos - help wanted!

Post by **admin** » 19 Jun 2008 11:24

You may be aware of my first attempt at incorporating videos which resulted in http://sydenham.tv. This uses YouTube as a rough & ready video library.

However YouTube has it problems so I'm experimenting with embedding videos directly on site. That will give me greater control when I've sorted all the issues.

I would like anyone reading this to try these two examples and give me your comments:

http://www.sydenhammusic.org.uk/sawyers.html
http://www.sydenham.org.uk/power_station_fire.html (click on video)

I'm not so interested in content comments (It can only improve!)
More - do they load fast enough? Is the picture quality OK, Do you get stuttering/pauses etc for each of the above?

It would help if you could say which browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera ... ) you use? Your PC type (Windows XP, Mac, Linux ...)? Speed or year bought? Your ISP (is it normally a good fast connection)?

TIA,
Admin

leenewham · Post by **leenewham** » 19 Jun 2008 12:39

http://www.sydenham.org.uk/ (frontpage - click on Philip Sawyer)

A little jerky, but played. Obviously it's small. I played it on a mac (never had any problems using this site an an apple mac jut so you know, except I often get logged out).

http://www.sydenhammusic.org.uk/sawyers.html

Played fine, but seems just like youtube without getting the benefit of seeing something for Sydenham on Youtube.

http://www.sydenham.org.uk/power_station_fire.html

This didn't work at all, just got the broken links signs.

Hope this helps. I like Sydenham TV, I'd like to see more.

leenewham · Post by **leenewham** » 19 Jun 2008 12:40

Oh, I tried them in Firefox AND safari, the same for both, although safari is much much faster.

Annie · Post by **Annie** » 19 Jun 2008 18:13

http://www.sydenhammusic.org.uk/sawyers.html

Thought this was brilliant,played on Internet explorer,Windows Vista,DELL Laptop,not sure how old but ive had it for 6 months,
it loaded very quickly and i thought the quality of picture was excellent.
Keep up the good work.

Post by **admin** » 19 Jun 2008 22:46

leenewham wrote:http://www.sydenham.org.uk/power_station_fire.html/
This didn't work at all, just got the broken links signs.

Sorry my link was broken. Now fixed, I hope, if you could retry.

TIA,
Admin

Annie · Post by **Annie** » 20 Jun 2008 14:06

Thanks Admin, yes i liked that one too, it loaded as well as the other one as stated earlier post.

LivesNearby · Post by **LivesNearby** » 15 Jul 2008 16:56

FYI - not a complaint

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I don't have the flash plugin installed for Firefox (a deliberate choice on my part), so all I get is a blank space wherever you have a movie and no warning. I also have java disabled by default...

There must be some code out there which will let you detect when flash is disabled or not installed - try the code from youtube.com (Message: Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.) or see the tutorials at Adobe.com

Post by **admin** » 15 Jul 2008 18:39

Whoops I had forgotten that in the rush. Thanks for reminding me. However I do feel uncomfortable with this detection stuff - eg YouTube can't detect my PDA is non-compliant.

I was thinking for the new site of having a lightweight PDA/Mobile alternate without javascript & flash and directing non-recognised stuff out there. I need to think about that some more.

BTW the vids use Flowplayer. V3 is due out in the Autumn and I guess I'm hoping the supporting code may include what you need.

Admin

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Website Videos - help wanted!

Website Videos - help wanted!