Squizzix Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 Right, so a picture in the product description is cool and all but what I need to do is put a low res version of the video I'm selling in the product description page. The "look before you buy" option sort of thing. How do I go about this? Is there a contribution I haven't found that does this? How do I handle naming the movies (the big 'uns are avi while the low res are the same name but .mov type)? So many questions but really, I'd settle for knowing where to start.
Shahid Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 Rather than integrate it into OSC. Put a link to a url page somewhere else on your site, not necaserrily on in OSC's catalog. Like www.yoursite.com/videos then where ever the specific vid is located.
user99999999 Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 You can use the embed tag in products description. <EMBED SRC="myvideo.mov" AUTOSTART=FALSE LOOP=FALSE HEIGHT=240 WIDTH=320 CONTROLS="TRUE">
Squizzix Posted September 11, 2006 Author Posted September 11, 2006 I had thought about that but I was trying to take advantage of the dynamic aspect of php. I'm going to be adding around ten videos a day for the forseeable future and making individual links/pages seems like it could get old really fast. I was shooting for something resembling http://www.artbeats.com/prod/product.php?id=549 Rather than integrate it into OSC. Put a link to a url page somewhere else on your site, not necaserrily on in OSC's catalog. Like www.yoursite.com/videos then where ever the specific vid is located.
Squizzix Posted September 12, 2006 Author Posted September 12, 2006 Dude you're my hero. It works just fine. Massive ups to the EMBED tag. You can use the embed tag in products description. <EMBED SRC="myvideo.mov" AUTOSTART=FALSE LOOP=FALSE HEIGHT=240 WIDTH=320 CONTROLS="TRUE">
srober Posted October 7, 2006 Posted October 7, 2006 guess im a idiot not sure how this works. If you dont mind can we go from the basics. Lets say I have a file on my computer that I have not yet uploaded to my server called Stampede.wmv What do I need to do step by step to give the user the option to click and view the clip? <EMBED SRC="myvideo.mov" AUTOSTART=FALSE LOOP=FALSE HEIGHT=240 WIDTH=320 CONTROLS="TRUE">
srober Posted October 7, 2006 Posted October 7, 2006 Oh I must be close:P I have the video player ont he bottom of my description where I put your embed code. Now im lacking the video. How do I get my stampede.wmv linked to the player?
srober Posted October 7, 2006 Posted October 7, 2006 Maybe I should toy with it before I spam the boards. Hopefully I will answer somebody elses question in the future. I had the clip in the image file it has to be in the catalog file. I would rather keep it clean and create a video file in the catalog folder. What would I fill inbetween "myvideo.mov" part of the code to go beyond the catalog folder? EMBED SRC="myvideo.mov" AUTOSTART=FALSE LOOP=FALSE HEIGHT=240 WIDTH=320 CONTROLS="TRUE">
srober Posted October 7, 2006 Posted October 7, 2006 I dont get it now all of a sudden its looking for the clip in the catalog/admin folder.
Squizzix Posted October 9, 2006 Author Posted October 9, 2006 Here's how I got around what I think your problem is. Since we have video for sale it's in /download. Unfortunately that's access only. So for preview videos I went in with FTPLE and made another folder in my oscommerce catalog folder where I put the preview videos (with watermark of course). Then all you got to do is a change "/download" to "/preview" (or whatever you decide to name the folder you use instead of /download) in the embed tag line. If it don't help post back. Word up, Ben P.S. So it looks like: EMBED SRC="preview/myvideo.mov" AUTOSTART=FALSE LOOP=FALSE HEIGHT=240 WIDTH=320 CONTROLS="TRUE"> I dont get it now all of a sudden its looking for the clip in the catalog/admin folder.
user99999999 Posted October 9, 2006 Posted October 9, 2006 Put a / in front and the full path to your video that will allow it to work from admin. Relative to server root EMBED SRC="/catalog/video/myvideo.mov" Relative to current directory EMBED SRC="video/myvideo.mov"
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