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Hi

What do I need to get a video clip (.avi file) to work in cms ms.

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a) Provide more information
b) do a lot of googling, CMS is standards compliant. so all you need to know is 'how do I need to do X in a standard web page', then you can do it in CMS, there are good ways and bad ways of course, but either will work.

Hi

The video clip is 640px*480px avi file. I uploaded it into the images folder as I would a jpeg file or gif file and insert it into a page like I would a picture, however, the video doesn't play - do I need to upload some plugin or utility for the video to play - could I upload quicktime via ftp would that work

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gogo123

1. convert the avi in a flash (flv) file.you get 4 files:
a flv file which contains the video, a swf file wich plays the video, a file for your video player skin and a html page

2. take the html file with the object code of the flash file. additionally set
(to avoid the cmsms menu to be shown under the flash movie)

3. upload all 4 files within cmsms to a folder you specify in the file manager

4. set the correct links to the uploaded swf file (http://www.yoursite.com/cms/uploads/fol ... shfile.swf) in the html page (upload the html page with the correct links again)

5. inside cmsms create a webpage containing a global content block which contains an iframe (linked to the html file you uploaded before) like:



6. that´s it. until now i think this is the only solution (if you don´t want a youtube video to be shown) to integrate flash movies with a player.

unfortunately i do not know how to use the flvplayer module which is inside cmsms... (when someone finds out how to do this, please tell me...)

greetings, plank0o.

which program is best to convert from avi to flv any free ones available?

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