Links to video clips -- for a website

Make sure that both the html file and your clip are in the same folder before creating the link--the clip name must show the extension. Then upload both to your website.  Or you can link to a clip to someone else's website -- see the fourth clip here.

Click on one of the sample clips below. A dialog window opens.

Internet Explorer: click Open. (File type can be Windows Media Player or Winamp -- depending on which plug-in you associate with .wmv.)



Netscape: click Open it with the default application (this may be Windows MediaPlayer or Winamp. The default application is the player on your computer which is associated with the particular file extension. The browser finds it.).


Sample clips:

For the .WMV files, you need WindowsMediaPlayer or Winamp.
For the .rm clip, you need RealPlayer.
For the .mov clip, you need QuickTime. (A nod to Mac users.)

From Migdio Dominguez, captured from CNN): Video1.mfw:  Video1.WMV
Video2.mfw:  Video2.WMV
From Robert Whittaker: a big clip from the Olympics--takes longer to open: video-anthem-rtr-october_2003-350kbps.rm
Endless loop: Rotating icosahedron.mov

Differences: file size and length


 Video1
 Video2
 anthem
 Icosahedron
File size
 185,378 b 86,836 b 3,066,675 b
 250,386 b
Length
 12 sec
 4 sec
 1 min 10 sec
Bit rate
 96 kbps as for Video1 32.1 kbps
Media type: *.wmv
 Windows Media File video as for Video1 *.rm - real media
 *.mov - QT
Video size
 320 x 240 as for Video1 as for Video1
Audio codec
 Windows Media Audio 9
16 kbps, 16 kHz, mono
 as for Video1 RealAudio 44100 khz
32 kbps
Video codec
 Windows Media Video V7 as for Video1 RealVideo 8

updated April 2005