play flv in html

[neeep]

Hi, Is there anything I need to do to play a flv file in html? Can anyone help me out here? Thanks!

[leimeisei]

If by "play in HTML" you mean "use HTML5 to play it without a plug-in", the answer is no. You'll need an embedded Flash movie player to do that. There's some really good free-for-noncommercial-use ones out there like JW player

[neeep]

thanks. One more question, if i arrange a table in word, and export it as html, can I still embed this player?
I assume this exported file is the same as a written html file?..

[zeroradius]

Heres the code. Your user will have to have flash installed to view it

<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="NameOfMovie" value="FileName.swf">
<embed src="FileName.swf" width="550" height="400">
</embed>
</object>

Yes, you can still open up the html file and embed it.

[leimeisei]

Maybe Word will export the Table code correctly, however from experience I know that Word does export non-W3C-compliant HTML. So you may have browser limitations. I do not at all recommend that anyone use Word for anything related to web design. For WYSIWYG web design tools, you should consider Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Web... and there are also open source tools available as well, but they aren't as good.

[zeroradius]

Maybe Word will export the Table code correctly, however from experience I know that Word does export non-W3C-compliant HTML. So you may have browser limitations. I do not at all recommend that anyone use Word for anything related to web design. For WYSIWYG web design tools, you should consider Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Web... and there are also open source tools available as well, but they aren't as good.

I don't recomend WYSIWYG editors at all, let alone word, but diffrent strokes for diffrent strokes makes the world go round

[leimeisei]

I don't recomend WYSIWYG editors at all, let alone word, but diffrent strokes for diffrent strokes makes the world go round

I don't use WYSIWYG editors at all, but this user doesn't look like they're prepared to be writing their own HTML.

I also forgot to say this earlier, but I don't even recommend doing a direct embed of Flash content (using the <object> tag). I recommend using JavaScript, as this is more compatible usibility-wise cross-browser (especially in IE6/7). Look into SWFObject, I highly recommend that little script.

[neeep]

I'm developing my client's site using html/css and javascript. He is selling an ebook online you see, and he is developing this on his own, exporting the html pages from word. He then asked me how to play a flv from word, which is why I started this thread..I've never used word for html and I don't know anything about its capacities and browser limitations.
I doubt word could read javascript, do you think?
If not, the embed script will have to do..

[leimeisei]

Well you can't play an FLV from a Word doc, nor can you embed JavaScript into a word doc. But you shouldn't have to. If he's giving you HTML generated by Word, then just open the HTML up with Notepad++, and add in the necessary JavaScript code or object embed code. Why don't you have your client give you the Word doc files and use those as like "design concepts", and then roll your own standards-compliant HTML? If you are creating a website for a client and are a HTML/CSS/JavaScript developer, you should have no problem doing this...

[neeep]

OK, thanks,

Can anyone direct me to a instruction on playing a flv from a html page?