How to Play a WMV File on a Website
As you develop a website, consider including your Windows Media Video (WMV) file on the page to enhance the content. This WMV format plays both audio and video and is ideal for Web pages because you have the ability compress the data to meet the various connection speeds of your visitors. With HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and an online resource, add your WMV file to your page so that viewers have the option to play the media directly on your site.
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Instructions
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Bring up a file hosting service, such as File Dropper or MediaFire, to make your WMV media accessible on a website. Click the "Upload" button and follow the onscreen instructions to add your WMV file to the host. Copy the URL address that automatically appears at the end.
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Launch a Web page in your computer's text editor application and place your cursor in the area where you want your video to show up.
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Type "<a href=" ">" and then enter your WMV file's URL address inside the angle brackets in the quotation marks. This anchor code links your WMV video to the Web page. For example:
<a href="http://www.host.com/video.wmv">
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Enter the name of your WMV video after the anchor code and follow this with a closing "</a>" tag. This allows your video to appear as a hyperlink so that a viewer clicks it to watch the movie. The complete code now looks as follows:
<a href="http://www.host.com/video.wmv">WMV File Name</a>
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Save your document.
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