<div id="Layer5" style="position:absolute; left:386px; top:285px; width:139px; height:23px; z-index:10"><a href="video/itsbird-lb.wmv">Windows Media 56k</a></div>

Is this an acceptable way to access a video? Is it better to use <embed>?

All opinions are welcome.

Guitarmom

P.S. The original site can be viewed at: http://www.supermanbobholiday.com/video.htm

It depends what you want to do, if you want to embed the video into a web page, then yes for sure use the <embed>

I love these forums, as we're welcome to be complete newbies and ask totally obvious questions. So, tonight I get to reveal just what a newbie I am and ask what must seem like a totally obvious question.

From your answer, I take it that "embed a video" means more than just "play the video." Can you help me understand just what "embed" means, and how that differs from just having the video run by linking to it? Does it have to do with WHEN the video LOADS, or HOW the video PLAYS? I'm really at a loss.

Thanks so much.

Guitarmom

http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php

This is a handy site that will generate the code for you to embed the video into a web page.

http://www.mmapower.com/video_Calf_Crank.asp
An example of embed, here i have embedded the video into the pages source code, now you need to take into consideration, this file has been prepared and converted for web use, as most video files are quite large. This is something that you can learn over the internet on how to do. For this site when i originally did it, i converted a video from MPEG to MOV(Quicktime), i then resized and compressed the file size so it loads a lot faster.

If you have a look at you tube, it allows you to copy the source code and embed it into a web page.
Perhaps you should give it a test, look at the code and get an understanding.

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FFuitd30vH4&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FFuitd30vH4&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

I hope this makes sense...
 

Thank you. These are fantastic resources.

Guitarmom

(Sorry for the delay in replying. My week ended up insane -- plumber included.)