I'm totally familiar in making static and dynamic websites.
However, I have never dealt with multimedia in a website.
I want to build a static website that has movies placed on various pages.
The movies will be supplied to me (I will not be making them), I only need to place them on pages.
My questions are...What format (file type) should the movie be in (I am not familiar with Flash, is that a movie type file?, are there others?)
I have the option to tell the people making the movies what type to make. What should I say, and should I include a size range (I'm assuming its sort of like an image file?)
Once I have the above things worked out, I'm assuming I'll have some movie files. Is placing them on a page just like placing image files?
Any help in getting me going is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Upload them to http://www.blip.tv, and they will give you HTML embeddable code for your site. You can upload mov, wmv, etc, all to Blip. They will convert it for you and handle the dirty-work. All you'll have to do is copy/paste the HTML code they provide.
The best way, in my humble opinion, is to embed video files uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo or other video uploading websites.
This generates HTML for embedding common multimedia types:
http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php
You can look at those for guidance.
One problem with Flash movies is they won't play on iPhones.
One word, Youtube
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=132460
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what is the approach to store multiple videos from an author in his named folder, but then there are 1-n videos from this author?
YouTube has for every video a complete different URL with an ID. Casual/Older users don't know where they are.
News sites seem use /topic/title-id123
Cnn uses /yyyy/mm/dd/title
To keep this question answerable: What URL structure would you recommend for me?
- every person has some videos without interesting title we could use
- the date from start day to end day is more likely important (2005-12-12 to 2005-12-17)
- every video should be social media shareable, so I think they all need a single URL and can't just be all embedded in /videos/name
Store them however is the best for the backend editor workflow (you didn't mention, how and when new videos are added), in 6.2 you have file abstraction layer, so each file in fileadmin has assigned ID. If you want to make your videos nicely social media sharable, you need to provide additional metadata such as video name and thumbnail etc, so I would suggest building a plugin for this which would take the video ID from the URL and display it with all the additional data necessary.
If you are using EXT:realurl (which I hope you are), you can configure to the video title in the URL, which would look like: /somepage/video/video-title/ or even /somepage/video-title/ . Adding /yyyy/mm/dd/ in the URL only makes sense if you are producing multiple videos every day, otherwise it feels pointless.
for building unique URLs with realurl for news you find solutions to include the uid of the news.
As TYPO3 handles all files with FAl you might use the unique file_sys:uid in your video URL. You might use realurl to generate and resolve URLs like:
/videos/123/title_of_video/
I want to download hundreds of pdf documents from a site. I have tried tools such as SiteSucker and similar, but it does not work, because there appears to be some "separation" between the files and the page that links to them. I don't know how to describe this in a better way, since I don't know that much about website programming or scraping. Any advice on what this can be and how one can circumvent it?
More specifically, I am trying to download pdfs of UN resolutions, stored on pages like this one: http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/resguide/r53_en.shtml
It appears there is an in-built "search function," on the UN site, which makes dummy scraping, like SiteSucker, not work as intended.
Are there other tools that I can use?
Clicking a link on the page you mentioned redirects to a page composed by two frames (html). The first one is the "header" and the second one loads a page to generate the PDF file and embed it inside. The URL of the PDF file is hard to guess. I don't know of free tool that could scrap this type of page.
Here is an example of the url in the second frame that ends to the PDF file:
http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N99/774/43/PDF/N9977443.pdf?OpenElement
Here im hitting my head againt the wall.
My client provided a pdf with buttons(just like buttons,when user tap on button,it will load next page and previous page etc.).
This buttons will work only when we open it in adobe reader.
I tried the QLpreviewview,quickview but it is not working,all what i can do is just to load the pdf in the webview.
Can anyone please help me in how to load an interactive pdf in iOS.
Thanks in advance.
Have a look at PSPDFKit, it is the most advanced framework I've found for PDFs in iOS. They have an impressive list of customers as well.
It is a bit pricy though, but you have the option to get the Source Code too if you need to modify anything. Could be worth it if your client need that kind of performance and other features as well.
(I am not in any way affiliated with PSPDFKit)
The limitations are due to the capabilities (or non-capabilities) of the PDF viewer used.
Currently the leading PDF viewer on iDevices is PDFExpert by Readdle. Adobe Reader for iDevices is weaker, but can deal to some extent with form elements.
For page navigation etc. you might use links instead of button fields (as far as you can live with the capabilities of links, and not use JavaScript). Links are said to be handled properly with many PDF viewers.
You may have to require certain PDF viewers on instructional level, because you don't have control over the viewer used by the actual user. And, as you noticed, many PDF viewers are simply too dumb do deal with active elements.
Another approach would be looking at PDF-to-HTML5 converters, and serve HTML5 from a server.
What I want to do is be able to find instances of YouTube URLs in an NSString (there are often at least 2-3 in each post) and change them to proper YouTube embeds.
The posts that I am downloading are from Wordpress and the site has support for automatically resolving YouTube links for embeds, so when I get them and place them in an NSString they only include the URL which I need to change to show in a WebView.
What would be the best way to achieve essentially wrapping all the existing URLs in YouTube embed code? I honestly can't think up any remotely compact code.
Thanks for any help.
I think you can parse URL content with hpple. How to work with it you can learn here. After parse you can check does link contains "youtube" or something else what do you need. I hope it will help you.
OK, I have thoroughly searched for an answer, and have not found one that WORKS correctly. I have a page full of videos - listing training videos, each will have a link to a youtube video (all videos have been uploaded to youtube), but will open up in a NEW PAGE on my site. I am a novice website designer, and the problem seems to be that people are anxious to give me half of the code, rather than being explicit with it. Can you help, please?
You need to get the embedding url.
For instance, instead of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPx3A6XEUF0
use this: https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPx3A6XEUF0