How to Embed Video of a Spokesperson Website

Embed a video player on your website to play videos of your spokesperson.

The spokesperson for your company or organization represents your products and ideas to the world. Your website is one tool to advertise your company or organization. Place videos of your spokesperson on your website to extend your advertising efforts to the web. To show videos on your website, you will need to embed a video player in a webpage. Windows Media Player, RealPlayer and Quicktime Player are three common video players that you can embed into your webpage to play videos. The media player loads right in the Internet browser and plays the video on your website.

Things You'll Need

• Web-authoring software

Instructions

1. Upload the spokesperson's video to your web server. Use an FTP program or the Control Panel backend application for your web host. Use the same procedure to upload the video that you did to upload all the other files on your website.

2. With your web-authoring software, open the webpage where you'd like to display the video. Select to see the page in the HTML view.

3. Click in the code to place the pointer in the place you want to embed the video. Copy and paste the following code in the HTML code of the webpage:

   <OBJECT id="VIDEO" width="320" height="240"
   style="position:absolute; left:0;top:0;"
   CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
   type="application/x-oleobject">

   <PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="your file or url">
   <PARAM NAME="SendPlayStateChangeEvents" VALUE="True">
   <PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="True">
   <PARAM name="uiMode" value="none">
   <PARAM name="PlayCount" value="9999">
   </OBJECT>

   Change the text for "your file or url" to the web location of the video you want to embed. This code works for any of the three media players listed above, but the "CLASSID" identifies Windows Media Player as the media player you want to load. If you want to use the Apple QuickTime player instead, change the "CLASSID" to "clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B." The "CLASSID" for the RealPlayer is "clsid:CFCDAA03-8BE4-11cf-B84B-0020AFBBCCFA."

4. Save the webpage and add it to your web server. Open your Internet browser and navigate to the webpage with the embedded video. Click on the "Play" button to test that the video plays correctly.

Tips & Warnings

• The media player will load in the web browser when visitors visit your site. The navigation bar shows below the video window for the visitor to control the playback of the video.

• If the user doesn't have the right media player installed on their computer, they can't play the video in their Internet browser. A broken video link icon will show instead.

• Choose the right media player to embed depending on the file format for your video file. For instance, Windows Media Player plays most commonly used video file formats (.wmv, .avi, .mp4, etc.), RealPlayer plays .smi or .smil file formats and QuickTime Player plays .mov files.

References

• Micplanet: How to embed Windows Media Player in a HTML document
• UIC.edu: Sample code to embed Realplayer in webpage