Including Sound or Video in your Webpage

You can include media in the two recommended ways below. There are also some browser-specific ways that we wont discuss. Also, be aware that the common formats supported by most browsers without downloading additional helper application software for sound is either: wav or au and for movies is: mpeg, avi, quicktime. Ofcourse many people have applications to assist with realaudio/realvideo, mp3, midi and other formats.

• As a Hyper-text link:        The user must click on the link for the media to start playing

<a href="file.wav">Click here to play Sound File</a>

<a href="file.mpeg"> Click here to play Movie</a>

An example: Click here to play welcome

• Embedded, that embeds the media player directly into the web-page::

  <embed src="file.wav" width=0 heigth=0> </embed>

  <embed src="file.avi" width=300 height=300> </embed>

  An example:

  • width, height, are in pixels and represent the size of the player to be visible
  • another option is Autostart=true this will start playing of the media when page including it is first loaded.
  • another option is Border=X where X is the pixel size of the border around the media player
  • another option is Loop=true this will cause the media to continually play in a loop mode.