How make Frontpage videos show up in the browser?

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I followed the instructions for embedding videos. I tried both avi and mpeg.
Tried both Explorer 6 and 7. Tried on two computers.

All I get in preview or on the Web are tiny boxes with three little icons
inside. Nothing happens when I click or anything else.
 
You'll have to show us what you did before we can tell you what you did
wrong.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Chicken Salad Surgery

What You Seek Is What You Get.
 
Sorry. I'm new to this.

I took a short mpeg file and converted it to avi. I put both versions in the
images folder, so I could try both.

In Page view, Design, I went to the Insert menu and then Picture and Video.
I put one of the files into the page at my insertion point. (Later I tried
the other version.)

When I tried to preview is when I got the tiny icon on the Web page. The
video did not show up in Explorer 6 or 7 or Netscape when I tried the preview
button at the bottom of the page.

I also tried to preview by going to the File menu and using "preview in
browser."

This did work once, when I tried "preview in browser" with Explorer 7 at 640
x 480. The video even played when I scrolled over it. But I still get the
tiny icons on the Web page.

When I tried the "preview in browser," I got blocked because of "scripts or
ActiveX controls." I had to click to allow them. Could this be the problem?

I must be doing some basic wrong. Suggestions?

Thanks in advance
 
That was much better.

I'm not sure which version of FrontPage you're using, so it would really
help if you copied the HTML that it generated into a message so we could
figure out the technical details. But from what I understand so far, when
you insert the video, it is inserting an ActiveX Control, probably an
instance of Windows Media Player, I would guess.

Internet Explorer and other browsers will continue to warn you about certain
things that may be misused by hackers and other evil-doers, so that's not
necessarily something to worry about. Putting a video into a web page is a
tough task, though, because of browser issues. Now, here is some HTML that
works in both Internet Explorer and FireFox, which I lifted from our company
web site. All you have to do is change the URL of the .WMV file:

<object
classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="320"
height="308" id="Player">
<param name="autoStart" value="True">
<param name="URL" value="sats2005.wmv">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/"
id="Player" showcontrols="true" showstatusbar="-1" width="320" height="285"
src="sats2005.wmv" autostart="true"></embed>
</object>

It will launch an instance of Windows Media Player in an ActiveX Control
embedded in the page.

The "URL" parameter (and the "src" attribute in the embed tag) is the URL to
the media file you want to play.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Chicken Salad Surgery

What You Seek Is What You Get.
 
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