PUB98: Movie Doesn't Play or Opens in Another Window in Web Site (189681)

RESOLUTION

You can work around this functionality and embed the movie by replacing the anchor (<A>) tag with an image (<IMG>) tag and adding a dynamic source attribute (DYNSRC) to the image tag. To do this, follow these steps.

NOTE: The following steps assume you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 4.0.

1. Insert the movie file. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. On the Insert menu, click Object.
   2. Click Create From File. Type the path for the movie file in the File box. Or, click Browse, select the file, and then click Open.
   3. Click OK.
2. Publish your Web site. To do this, click Save As HTML on the File menu. Close the file.
3. Start Windows Explorer. To do this, point to Programs on the Windows Start menu, and then click Windows Explorer. Open the folder that contains your Publisher Web site. By default, Publisher stores these files in the \My Documents\Publish folder. If you saved your Publisher Web site in a different folder, open that folder instead.
4. Double-click the page that contains the movie file. The page will open in Internet Explorer.
5. On the View menu, click Source. Find the following code and note any attributes (such as height and width) that you want to retain.

         <a href="moviefile.qt">
         <img width=555 height=417 border=0 src="img0.gif"></a>
   						

   Delete the code and replace it with the following code:

   <img dynsrc="mymovie.avi">

   To specify the height and width for the movie object, use the following syntax:

   <img dynsrc="mymovie.avi" width="20" height="20">

   NOTE: To preserve the size of the movie object, use the same attribute settings that were used in the original code.
   
   If you want to play the movie continuously, use the following syntax:

   <img dynsrc="mymovie.avi" loop="infinite">

   If you want the movie to play when the mouse pointer passes over the object, use the following syntax:

   <img dynsrc="mymovie.avi" start="mouseover">

6. On the File menu, click Save.