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= Supported Media Formats =

Proprietary

Quicktime (implemented)


<div class="codeblock">      <!-- begin embedded QuickTime file... -->
      <table border='0' cellpadding='0' align="left">
        <!-- begin video window... -->
        <tr><td>
        <OBJECT classid='clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B' width="320"
        height="255" codebase='http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab'>
        <param name='src' value="http://servername/path/to/media.file">
        <param name='autoplay' value="false">
        <param name='controller' value="true">
        <param name='loop' value="false">
        <EMBED src="http://servername/path/to/media.file" width="320" height="255" autoplay="false"
        controller="true" loop="false" pluginspage='http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/'>
        </EMBED>
        </OBJECT>
        </td></tr>
        <!-- ...end embedded QuickTime file -->
        </table></div>

Windows Media


<div class="codeblock">      <!-- begin embedded WindowsMedia file... -->
      <table border='0' cellpadding='0' align="left">
      <tr><td>
      <OBJECT id='mediaPlayer' width="320" height="285"
      classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95'
      codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
      standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...' type='application/x-oleobject'>
      <param name='fileName' value="http://servername/path/to/media.file">
      <param name='animationatStart' value='true'>
      <param name='transparentatStart' value='true'>
      <param name='autoStart' value="false">
      <param name='showControls' value="true">
      <param name='loop' value="false">
      <EMBED type='application/x-mplayer2'
        pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/'
        id='mediaPlayer' name='mediaPlayer' displaysize='4' autosize='-1'
        bgcolor='darkblue' showcontrols="true" showtracker='-1'
        showdisplay='0' showstatusbar='-1' videoborder3d='-1' width="320" height="285"
        src="http://servername/path/to/media.file" autostart="false" designtimesp='5311' loop="false">
      </EMBED>
      </OBJECT>
      </td></tr>
      <!-- ...end embedded WindowsMedia file -->
    <!-- begin link to launch external media player... -->
        <tr><td align='center'>
        <a href="http://servername/path/to/media.file" style='font-size: 85%;' target='_blank'>Launch in external player</a>
        <!-- ...end link to launch external media player... -->
        </td></tr>
      </table></div>

Open Source


Ogg/Annodex


Mpeg-4

Unknown License

Avi

= Notes =

We should concentrate on container formats.

The user ddennedy has a few thoughts on mp4 embedding http://www.ourmedia.org/node/26042. He has been contacted for additional input.

The Acidfree Drupal module may provide all the media formats we want

  • this seems to be the standard format for codecs/containers that are not linked to a specific player:

<embed src="http://site" width="320" height="240" autoplay="false" scale="tofit"></embed>

Links:

Comments and discussion: