- Mpeg multimedia madness
- Posted by Spartanicus on February 16th, 2006
jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) wrote:
No, specifying width and height allows the browser to layout the page
before the size of the embedded object (like an image) can be extracted,
this can only occur after it has downloaded.
However in the case of embedded video the size also includes space for
the player console. The console size may vary, so it's better to omit
the width and height attributes for embedded audio and/or video.
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- Posted by Del on February 16th, 2006
"Stevie D" <stevie@sjd117.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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I took it off for fear of copyright issues. Shame cos it's a good video.
Not yet, I did that swf in 10 minutes to show how adding text does help 200%
in this situation. I'm not red-hot with flash (yet) but I want to get better
with the action scripts which will do that.
Smashinguitars is basicaly my multimedia guinea pig as the visitors aren't
fussy and if the whole thing's a mess...
it suits them
)
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- Posted by Jim Ley on February 16th, 2006
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:37:06 GMT, Spartanicus
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
but why would it not be specified in the stylesheet, it being
presentational?
Jim.
- Posted by Spartanicus on February 16th, 2006
jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) wrote:
It's not as I just explained.
Point out what specifically you don't get if you need help to
understand.
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- Posted by Jim Ley on February 16th, 2006
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:22:52 GMT, Spartanicus
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
How is the height and width of something anything but presentational?
You didn't even to attempt to explain that, indeed you actually talked
about the presentation in your "explanation".
Jim.
- Posted by Spartanicus on February 16th, 2006
jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) wrote:
You're right, I missed your point.
The issue here is that CSS should be used as fully optional. This means
that the width and height should be coded with embedded content in the
markup to allow a client to layout/flow a page with no or as few reflows
as possible without having to rely on an optional component such as CSS.
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- Posted by Gazza on February 17th, 2006
Jim Ley mumbled the following on 16/02/2006 22:07:
You specify all the height and widths of your images with CSS in an
external stylesheet? Sure it can be done, but keeping it in the HTML has
it's advantages...
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- Posted by Del on February 17th, 2006
"Gazza" <news@garyjones.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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as structural.
They both have advantages realy- if you have a table of 2000 thumbnails
which are all the same size you would save a lot of time and filesize
defining dimensions once in the external.
- Posted by Del on February 17th, 2006
"Spartanicus" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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Eh? I don't run my own server so I'll have to get onto the host about that,
but why do I need to specify a mime type- surely mpegs are so common that
every service provider will have it set. ?
I'm sure that most of the musicaly minded visitors of mine will have it
enabled anyway, but how would I put a text-line in it's place if it weren't
enabled (like an alt on images).
I know what you mean there, but Flash does have the advantage of laying text
over it to label each chord.
Mpeg editors do that?
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ps, 'Dry Your Eyes' is a piece of p*$$ (try it yourself), but other tunes I
tabbed up like 'Brown Paper Bag' will need a very high frame rate.
- Posted by Spartanicus on February 17th, 2006
"Del" <del@smashinguitars.com> wrote:
Any decent host allows you to do this yourself. Typically through
..htaccess files if your server is Apache.
Dream on.
In that case IE will popup a warning saying "The page may not display as
intended ..." because of the user's ActiveX setting and then present the
link coded into the example, this allows the user to view the video in a
separate application window.
To be compatible with a wide range of media players text should be
encoded in the video itself. Overlaying text over video is easy to do
with most video editors. Make sure that you have the video files in a
suitable source format (preferably uncompressed or losslessly
compressed), then you can do what you want with it before encoding it
into a format suitable for web usage.
I gave up trying to play guitar many moons ago.
The typical video frame rate is 25fps, this is plenty fast enough even
for Eddie van Halen or Joe Satriani solo transcripts. You've not said
what the videos will show, assuming they will show the finger setting it
might be helpful if a user could play the video's in slow motion. I'm
not sure if modern media players have that option (I'm using an old MS
MediaPlayer version 6.4 myself).
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