Frontpage and Quicktime help

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 6:45 am

Hi guys, need some help with some frontpage....I need to incorporate some movies into my frontpage project, the ones i take with my digital cam are in a quicktime format when I transfer them into my pc, and when I insert them into frontpage they don't seem to play...only the sounds come out but the movie doesn't play. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 11:40 am

http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/compatibility.html

Better Solution:

Use Windows Media Formats. QuickTime really really sucks!

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 2:19 pm

Hey Tony, thanks again you always seem to be the one solving people's problems

But I don't really have a choice here (or do I?) cos when I take movie clips with my digital cam, it automatically saves it into a quicktime format. My cam is a Minolta DimageX, is it possible to convert quicktime movies into windows media?

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 2:55 pm

Convert QT

many more here

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 2:36 am

Thanks alot tony, will try them out and get back to you

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 2:47 am

Hi again Tony, how do I add a play and stop button etc so that the movie doesn't play automatically once the page loads?

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 8:37 am

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 4:09 pm

Once again Tony, thanks.... You da man!

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 2:33 pm

Got one more question: when RAD video tools is converting from quicktime to .avi format it is unable to open the sound file, and I end up with a .avi movie without sound. How do I overcome this?

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 5:11 pm

Don;t know, never used one of those converters. What does the help program say, or the website for RAD? Or other sites?

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:02 am

RAD video tool's help section says that I either have to download the latest quicktime or the movie I'm trying to convert is copyrighted...Is that possible? I mean, how can the movies that I take with my cam be copyrighted?

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:10 pm

Hey Tony, regarding your previous post on how to setup a start button, <embed src="MY_VIDEO_FILE.MPEG" autostart="false" controls="true" loop="false" width="300" height="200"></embed>

where do I insert this? When I insert a movie file, this HTML source code comes out:
<html>

<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>

<body>

<p>
<img border="0" dynsrc="file:VIDEO_FILE.AVI" start="fileopen" width="320" height="240"></p>

</body>

</html>

Where do I insert it in? Kinda lost on this one...thanks

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:21 pm

Ooooooo ok I got it don't trouble yourself Tony

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:29 am

Few more questions:
1. I need a stand alone Flash player so that when people (who don't have flash) open up my cd the flash movies are able to play, and idea on where to get these and how to do it?

2. Also need to make my cd autorun, how do I do it? The first file to run is my contents page (contents.html), I tried creating a notepad autorun.inf file and linked it to contents but it didn't work, need help with this too...

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 8:02 am

1. Download the Flash Plug-In from Macromedia. Put it on the CD. When embedding Flash in an html doc there is a section of code that detects if the user has Flash or not. If not, then he is prompted to download it. You can edit the path to the download by changing it from pointing to macromedia web site to your CD.

2. Autorun inf creation? I have a guide about this here:
http://www.coolpagehelp.com/autorun.html
The autorun.inf must be in the root directory of the CD and the path to your "opening file" musty be specified in the "open command".

Sample Autorun.inf:

[autorun]
open=start.exe folder_name/your_file_name.html

Sample Flash Code:

<OBJECT classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shoc ... on=5,0,0,0" WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=180 hspace=0 vspace=0 salign=l>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Preview2.swf">
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE="#000000">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=true>
<PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=true>
<PARAM NAME=play VALUE=true>
<PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=exactfit>
<EMBED src="Preview2.swf"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/dow ... kwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
swLiveConnect=true width=320 height=180 hspace=0 vspace=0 salign=l bgcolor="#000000" quality=high loop=true menu=true play=true scale=exactfit</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 10:00 am

Oh man sounds deep...will try it out and get back to you thanks Tony

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 2:05 pm

One note: TonyT is the man here and should be a mod for this forum.

Keep up the good work (Tony) and great questions (Newbie) !!!

I am bookmarking this thread for future reference.

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 2:42 pm

Yep he sure is...seems like there's nothing he can't solve

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 3:37 am

Hey Tony, have something I need to clear up about making a CD autonrun:

Sample Autorun.inf:

[autorun]
open=start.exe folder_name/your_file_name.html

What do I put as the folder_name? Cos I din know what to put and I sort of trialed and errored, trying all the files and when I put the CD into another PC, it gives me an error "Access to the specified device, path, or file is denied."

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 8:58 am

The root directory is the top level directory of a drive or CD. For example, if your hard drive is named 'C', then when exploring it, the root directory would contain, My Documents, Program Files, Window, etc etc.

The root of a CD is the top level. The autorun.inf goes in the root directory of the CD, and assuming that you want to start with a file such as a web page or a flash intro, and these files would be in their own folder, then the file path in the autorun.inf would have to point to that folder and the file you wish to start with.

If using html files, make sure that you use relative links on the pages.

What OS are you using?

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 10:10 am

I'm using win2k pro, right now I just put all my files into the cd without creating any folders, is this what's causing the problem? I linked the autorun to the first page and just dumped the autorun.inf file into the cd together with the rest of the files, and I got that error. Please advise, thanks alot.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:32 am

what is content of autorun.inf?

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 2:49 am

Sorry for the late reply, was real busy with school and stuff.
Anyway, the content was something like this:

[autorun]
open=start.exe page1.html

I din know what to put for the folder name so I tried different options, none of them worked.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 1:48 pm

missing the quotes.

should be:

[autorun]OPEN="start folder_name\page1.html"

ONLY if page1.html is in a folder. If page1.html is in same level as autorun.inf, then it would be:

[autorun]OPEN="start page1.html"

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 5:41 am

Ohhh ok, thanks

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 6:06 am

Hmmm, it doesn't seem to work. This is the code I entered:

[autorun]OPEN="contents.html"

I just burnt everything onto a cd, there are no folders, what could be wrong?

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 7:39 am

[autorun]OPEN="start contents.html"

You need to specify what program OPENS. In this case, the program that opens is start.exe, but you need not use the .exe extension. You see, contents.html is not a program. And you cannot use OPEN IEXPLORE because IE is not on the CD. But because html files will be associated with a default browser, the program start.exe will execute the opening of the filetype in the associated program, the web browser that isinstalled on the users system.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 8:44 am

[autorun]
open=start anyname.htm

'Anyname' can be any file in the root of the CD.

The name of the file on the CD, and the name of the file called in autrun.inf MUST match.

Autorun.inf itself MUST be in the root of the CD

Use filenames 8 characters or less, with a 3 character extention.

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 1:05 pm

Thanks, I think I get what you're trying to say. Sorry if I sound dumb cos its sorta my first time doing this

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 2:00 pm

Hmmm still can't work, I tried
[autorun]OPEN="start contents.html"

and

[autorun]
open=start contents.htm

it gives me an access to the specified device, path or file is denied. I'm sure the contents.html in autorun and the contents.html in my harddisk are the same, what could be the problem?

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 4:55 pm

2 things come to mind.

1. You need to be logged on as an admin, or power user.

2. Possibly the start command isn't needed in XP. I don't see a start.exe in my XP installation.

I'm going to run a test, since I haven't made a autorun.inf for XP yet. I use something alltogether different. I'll get back to you.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 5:33 pm

Ok test complete. Neither method works in XP. I get no error message, but nothing at all comes up. It works in 98 (the method I posted), but not XP.

I took the start.exe from a win98 installation, and put it into the XP system32 dir, it works when I did that using the method I posted above. That's the best workaround I know of at the moment. Good for your own use, on your own machine, but no good on other machines unless you put the start command on them before inserting the CD.

That's al I can tell you. XP must have did away with the start command for files other than executables. Not positive on that, but it looks that way.

I use a different method that is a lot harder to grasp than a one line inf entry. Not something I have the time or desire to explain, sorry.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 5:40 pm

Another workaround that 'should' work in XP...

Place the start.exe from a win98 installation in the root of the CD.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 5:53 pm

I do believe a posted a link earlier in this thread to the MS site re autorun files. It can get complicated. If you want a 1-2-3 solution, try one of the freeware apps here:
http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/syste ... ools.shtml

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 11:03 pm

I don't have windows98, only have 2k and XP

And I downloaded Autorun creator, it created an autorun file titled

[autorun]
open = contents.html
icon =

but it still doesn't work, sigh.
Could be problem lie with the contents.html itself?

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:21 am

Ok nevermind I sorta got it right, now I need help with a last problem: How do I link sound files to certain things in a html file?

For example, I want this word to make a sound when I click on it; I already have the sound file in my harddisk, how do I go about doing it?

Also, if I added background music, I need to add in a toolbar that can play/pause/stop the music, how do I go about doing this too?

Thanks alot

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 8:36 am

Here's my Audio Controls Code Generator:
http://www.coolpagehelp.com/audio_controls.html

To play a sound onClick you need to use javascript, unless you mean to launch the persons default multimedia app to stream the sound file, in which case you just link to the file.

NewbiePCuseR · Post by **NewbiePCuseR** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:45 am

How about if I wanna link a sound clip to a button that is already linked to another page? How do I go about doing it?