How to put video on a web page

Sample of a video web page - Swasey Central School January 2005

This page was linked to as: View video of "Siyahamba" - Broadband Connection - 4MB wmv

Code to display video at left for Internet Explorer:

If video does not start playing above, click here to open wmv file. This direct link should be added for browsers that are not MSIE since object embed code is specific to browser.

This video was captured from camera at: Video for local playback (1.5Mbps) - it was 17MB
Then it was saved as Movie file: Video for Broadband (340Kbps) as shown above - it was 4MB (320x240 image size)

It was also saved as:

Video for Dial-up Access (38Kbps) and was 491K (160x120 image size)
Video for Local Playback (1.5Mbps) and was 23MB (larger than original because of titles, transitions, etc.). This copy was put on CD for local computer playback. (640x480 image size)

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