Video on Web Page

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I've speak a week trying to figure out videos on my web page. There's certainly nothing that explains this in a simple, straightforward way.

I've got a wmv that's 85 mg large. When I place it on my sight it takes far too long to download. Is wmv the best format or is Quicktime better?

Also, what about codecs?

What exactly is WMV 9 VCM. I've searched the microsoft website for a straight answer on this and gotten noting but a lot of language I don't understand. I've downloaded this product, used it to compress my 85mg file, but got a file format that doesn't seem to work on a website.

Please advise, thanks.

 

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WMV 9 VCM is a different way to interface with the WMV9 codec, so that it
can be used in non-ASF containers such as AVI.

A big file is a big file: any big file would take a long while to download.
Generally both MOV and WMV should be able to pseudo-stream from your web
site pretty easily, so ... it's partly a personal choice. I'll stay away
from the qualitative issues since I work at MS. =)

-Zach
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See http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"ricland" <ricland@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've speak a week trying to figure out videos on my web page. There's
> certainly nothing that explains this in a simple, straightforward way.
>
> I've got a wmv that's 85 mg large. When I place it on my sight it takes
> far too long to download. Is wmv the best format or is Quicktime better?
>
> Also, what about codecs?
>
> What exactly is WMV 9 VCM. I've searched the microsoft website for a
> straight answer on this and gotten noting but a lot of language I don't
> understand. I've downloaded this product, used it to compress my 85mg
> file, but got a file format that doesn't seem to work on a website.
>
> Please advise, thanks.
>
>