We all know that UTube provides a handy facility to allow people to "put" their own movie[s] onto the web, and I have some 55 at last count of mine there wongadongas videos

But there are down sides too, eg lack of privacy and all that UTube "promotional stuff" can be overpowering. For sure it can no longer be said that one uses UTube to save space at their own web site. For example my main host just increased my space from 1 gb to 350 gb at no extra cost and while I now use close to 10 gb there is no way I will ever use 350 gb.

Then we have the totally uninformed "copyright issue" where UTube/Courtney Love Inc have removed the audio from this video. But they CAN'T remove it from go to movie 8 because it is at MY site. If you are hazy on copyright please see My Polemic on Copyright

All this is even sillier as only 200 people have seen the "banned" version but the FULL version has been seen by 100,000. Once again we have Political Correctness gone mad.

In my view the main reason people rarely "do their own thing" is the belief that it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to know the code [html/java?] to use, and that belief is basically correct. Secondly, unless you have been on Mars for the last 3 years you will know that the "computer industry" has done all in its power to discourage people doing their own thing by those totally annoying "pop-ups" to inform the surfer of the dire consequences of using "Active X controls" ie Windows Media Player", while UTube etc are not bothered even though Flash claims to also be an Active X.

So enter the IFrame Movie solution to all these problems. Here is one such example IFrame Example

As you can see there is a web page that you can simply customise to your own requirements and it has a menu system [a JAlbum in an IFrame] set up to view 9 movies, one at a time, and all you have to do is make up to 9 movies, name them movie1.*** to movie9.*** and replace the existing "dummy" movies. Then FTP the lot to your own web site.

So you don't even need to know basic html or own an html editor, just open the top level index file in NotePad [not WordPad], replace my text with your text/images and Save. That index file can then be your Home page, or the index to a sub folder page, to as many levels as you wish/need.

Here is an Example I did using this template.

Here is another - note that all these MotoGP Circuits are also on UTube, but hey, try to view them in sequence, as you can easily do here, and you have a problem.

Here is another

Here is another

Here is another

So how did I work out the code to do this? Well I didn't! I simply used the most popular of all skins in Jalbum stable, called Chameleon, which I slightly customised to fit the IFrame.

But there is lots more good news. Although I have been using Chameleon for a long time I was under the impression that it just did wmv video [which has always been my choice], but I now find that it can handle most any type by way of some java script, and my limited knowledge of such things says if you can see your type in this line of code

var mtype = new Array (".avi.mp3", ".qt.mov.mpg.mpeg.mpe.mp4.aiff", ".wmv.wma.asf", ".swf.flv", ".divx.xvid" );

then not only will your video play but it will play in the most appropriate "object" [ie player].

But there is an added advantage of using the java method which is that UTube and "I.T. Professionals" alike use this [but keep it to themselves] to avoid being visited by the dreaded "Active X Policeman". And here is the proof from a "Nerd Site":

And that is exactly what Laza does in his code for Chameleon

So to make it easy for you to simply use this as a template, I have constucted the following 5 templates already setup for the most common file types. So please try them out to see how they work [or don't] in your GUI and Browser combination. So if for example your digital camera or cell phone has a movie facility in mov [as mine does] you can avoid all that editing/converting by using the mov template below. One thing I note with my own PC/browser setup is wmv is the only one that allows full screen, just another advantage of using MovieMaker and saving in wmv.

So hopefully these templates will allow you to once again use wmv as webvideos WITHOUT interference from the Active X Policeman.

IFrame Example flv

IFrame Example mov

IFrame Example mp4

IFrame Example swf

IFrame Example wmv

Here is a set of zip files for the set up, so just click save and unzip the file [double click] to where you want on your PC

Zip File flv

Zip File mov

Zip File mp4

Zip File swf

Zip File wmv

In conclusion, there are three or more ways to use the information on this page

• Simply use the unzipped template of your choice, replacing the dummy movies with you own movies
• Make your own JAlbum after downloading software
• Seek my help at Redux Wesite