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cordon
10-26-2002, 05:15 PM
I would like to add audio and video to a website but have no experience on how this is done. I don't want the visitor to have to download Real Player, Media Player, etc, but be able to use what they already have on the computer. I also want the visitor to have to click on a link to activate the audio or video - not just start playing when they 'hit' the site.

Any feedback, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Jack Higgins
DCElliott
10-26-2002, 05:42 PM
No problem if you want the sound or video to open up an application capable of playing that file type. For example lets say you had a file called "example.wav" that you wanted people to hear. You would codeClick <a href="example.wav">here</a> for an example and when the visitor clicked on the link, whatever software their computer is configured to use to play a wav file should start up and play the sound. The same goes for video.

More sophisticated implementations are possible using <OBJECT> tags and building areas in the browser window to display video, etc. Put a wav or mp3 file in a test web page directory and then create a link to it in a test page . . . see what happens.

DE
cordon
10-26-2002, 08:09 PM
Thank you for that feedback. It works great. Is there an easy way to get audio from a cassette or video from a video cassette 'digitized' so they can be up loaded to the web? I have Window XP and have seen something about being able to do that. Will that work?

Your help is greatly appreciated!!!!! Thank you.

Jack Higgins
DCElliott
10-27-2002, 06:48 AM
There are a number of ways. You can use the line-in on your sound card to directly input sound to a wav file and then convert the wav to mp3. There are a number of programs that will do that for you, do a web search on "wav to mp3" or "mp3 from tape." If you buy the commercial version of Roxio's Easy CD Creater it has "Spin Doctor" which can clean up LP and Tape recordings. (The usual OEM bundle of Roxio's software that comes with CDRW drives does NOT have the Spin Doctor) Hope this helps.

DE