Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2009/07/02/found-how-to-embed-vlc-806-player-in-html/

As I mentioned in my last post – well actually I more complained loudly than mentioned – I have been trying to get 3D animated video with sound out of Blender. I managed it (after weeks of work) but the only media player that could handle the strange file that Blender spat out was the robust and friendly VLC media player. I already had it hanging around my hard drive because it is my player of last resort when I am trying to watch DVDs with anti pirating measures on my laptop. It will succeed in playing them where other players fail, sometimes.

So the next problem was how do I embed said player in my web pages? This page seems to have the answer.

The VideoLAN Forums • View topic – Embedded VLC 8.06 player in HTML

It didn’t work first time. I just got the box with the depressing missing content symbol instead of a player with a 3D animation. I had to take the code out because it was crashing Windows Live Writer. But I then found some more similar looking code here.

name="video1"
autoplay="no" loop="yes" width="400" height="300"
target="http://etc/tiny_test.avi" />


Play video1
Pause video1
Stop video1
Fullscreen

again Live Writer crashed and showed no vid. I decided it might work on the site even if it didn’t in Live Writer, so that’s why this malfunctioning player is sitting here right now. I’m trying to get it to work. But it doesn’t yet.