embedding videos

[bopaige]

I'm looking at reproducing something like this ( http://www.getsignboard.com/learn.php) but in Tiddlywiki since we don't have volunteers or budget to use Flash Pro. I'm thinking adding messages/etc through tiddlers for the left-hand and bottom part of the screen, and display local videos in the main part of the window. This will run full-screen on a dedicated computer/40" LCD.

I tried something really simple with a new, empty TW the PlayerPlugin, and a 10MB .wmv file in the same directory as the TW.

I made a new tiddler with the following content:

<<player id=1 http://movie.wmv>>

All it does is display the black video box with controls, but doesn't play even if I hit the 'play' button. I've tried IE and Chrome (dont' have firefox).

1. how do I get a simple video to play

2. any thoughts on reproducing the simple framed format described in the link above?

[Eric Shulman]

> I tried something really simple with a new, empty TW the PlayerPlugin, and
> a 10MB .wmv file in the same directory as the TW.
> I made a new tiddler with the following content:
> <<player id=1 http://movie.wmv>>

That isn't a valid URL for a *local* file! To view a locally stored
file, you need to make a proper reference to a file:// URL (unless, of
course, you are running a local web server to deliver the file via http://
protocol)

enjoy,
-e
Eric Shulman
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[bopaige]

Sorry, I neglected to say that I also tried file://movie.wmv and file:///movie.wmv

I can use a relative URL, right? I'd hate to think I need a complete path, e.g. file://c/my documents/....

[Daniel Baird]

file://movie.wmv might be a relative path, file:///movie.wmv I think is an absolute path starting at /.

You might want to try the correct absolute path as a troubleshooting step -- if it works, you just have to work out how to write a relative path that's acceptable to your browser.

If that _doesn't_ work, then maybe try the player plugin on an http-hosted movie.  If _that_ doesn't work, then your plugin isn't working..

;Daniel

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Daniel Baird
I've tried going to the XHTML <bar /> a few times, but it's always closed.