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Offline MBantz

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Converting a video to be played with Microsoft Media Player
« on: January 06, 2011, 04:43:51 PM »
I maintain a Joomla site and some hardcore IE6 users need to see small video clip in joomla.

There is no joomla extension that is well suited for shockwave flash for IE6 - so I try to convert the small videos to wmv - playing the videos in Media Player 11 turns out to not recognize the codecs at all,

does anyone know what codecs are best suited in this situation? I've tried MS MPEG-4 v3 and mpeg audio layer 1/2/3 in a wmv container and several other combinations. Using ffmpeg for the conversion.

Everything I throw at the system plays well in PCLinux of course :-)
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Offline ff103

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Re: Converting a video to be played with Microsoft Media Player
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2011, 05:11:41 PM »
I'm not that familiar with Joomla, but if it will allow you to embed html code, can you upload your video to youtube and then embed the youtube video into the page? will IE6 do youtube video?
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Re: Converting a video to be played with Microsoft Media Player
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2011, 11:55:40 AM »
Hi ff103,

thanks for your great suggestion - I'll check if this will work out with the guys who made the video,

cheers,
MBantz
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