23. HTML Embed Multimedia ~ KAS4UAll

Sometimes you need to add music or video into your web page. The easiest way to add video or sound to your web site is to include the special HTML tag called . This tag causes the browser itself to include controls for the multimedia automatically provided browser supports

tag and given media type.
You can also include a
This will produce following result:

You can put any media file in src attribute. You can try it yourself by giving various types of files.

The Tag Attributes

Following is the list of important attributes which can be used with

tag.

Attribute	Description
align	Determines how to align the object. It can be set to either center, left or right.
autostart	This boolean attribute indicates if the media should start automatically. You can set it either true or false.
loop	Specifies if the sound should be played continuously (set loop to true), a certain number of times (a positive value) or not at all (false)
playcount	Specifies the number of times to play the sound. This is alternate option for loop if you are usiong IE.
hidden	Specifies if the multimedia object should be shown on the page. A false value means no and true values means yes.
width	Width of the object in pixels
height	Height of the object in pixels
name	A name used to reference the object.
src	URL of the object to be embedded.
volume	Controls volume of the sound. Can be from 0 (off) to 100 (full volume).

Supported Video Types

You can use various media types like Flash movies (.swf), AVI's (.avi), and MOV's (.mov) file types inside embed tag.

.swf files - are the file types created by Macromedia's Flash program.
.wmv files - are Microsoft's Window's Media Video file types.
.mov files - are Apple's Quick Time Movie format.
.mpeg files - are movie files created by the Moving Pictures Expert Group.




</span><span class="pln">HTML embed Tag</span><span class="tag">

src="/html/yourfile.swf" width="200" height="200" > <img src="yourimage.gif" alt="Alternative Media" > This will produce following result:

Background Audio

You can use HTML tag to play a soundtrack in the background of your webpage. This tag is supported by Internet Explorer only and most of the other browsers ignore this tag. It downloads and plays an audio file when the host document is first downloaded by the user and displayed. The background sound file also will replay whenever the user refreshes the browser.
This tag is having only two attributes loop and src. Both these attributes have same meaning as explained above.
Here is a simple example to play a small midi file:




</span><span class="pln">HTML embed Tag</span><span class="tag">

src="/html/yourfile.mid"> <img src="yourimage.gif" > This will produce blank screen. This tag does not display any component and remains hidden.

Internet Explorer can also handle only three different sound format files: wav, the native format for PCs; au, the native format for most Unix workstations; and MIDI, a universal music-encoding scheme.

HTML Object tag

HTML 4 introduces the

Example - 3

You can specify some parameters related to the document with the tag. Here is an example to embed a wav file:

Example - 4

You can add a flash document as follows:

Example - 5

You can add a java applet into HTML document as follows:

The classid attribute identifies which version of Java Plug-in to use. You can use the optional codebase attribute to specify if and how to download the JRE.

tag and given media type.
You can also include a
This will produce following result:

You can put any media file in src attribute. You can try it yourself by giving various types of files.

The Tag Attributes

Following is the list of important attributes which can be used with

tag.

Attribute	Description
align	Determines how to align the object. It can be set to either center, left or right.
autostart	This boolean attribute indicates if the media should start automatically. You can set it either true or false.
loop	Specifies if the sound should be played continuously (set loop to true), a certain number of times (a positive value) or not at all (false)
playcount	Specifies the number of times to play the sound. This is alternate option for loop if you are usiong IE.
hidden	Specifies if the multimedia object should be shown on the page. A false value means no and true values means yes.
width	Width of the object in pixels
height	Height of the object in pixels
name	A name used to reference the object.
src	URL of the object to be embedded.
volume	Controls volume of the sound. Can be from 0 (off) to 100 (full volume).

Supported Video Types

You can use various media types like Flash movies (.swf), AVI's (.avi), and MOV's (.mov) file types inside embed tag.

.swf files - are the file types created by Macromedia's Flash program.
.wmv files - are Microsoft's Window's Media Video file types.
.mov files - are Apple's Quick Time Movie format.
.mpeg files - are movie files created by the Moving Pictures Expert Group.




</span><span class="pln">HTML embed Tag</span><span class="tag">

Background Audio




</span><span class="pln">HTML embed Tag</span><span class="tag">

HTML Object tag

HTML 4 introduces the

Example - 3

You can specify some parameters related to the document with the tag. Here is an example to embed a wav file:

Example - 4

You can add a flash document as follows:

Example - 5

You can add a java applet into HTML document as follows:

The classid attribute identifies which version of Java Plug-in to use. You can use the optional codebase attribute to specify if and how to download the JRE.

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23. HTML Embed Multimedia

The Tag Attributes

Supported Video Types

Background Audio

HTML Object tag

Example - 1

Example - 2

Example - 3

Example - 4

Example - 5

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