Oral History Project Video Playing Instructions

There are four steps to making the web site that will allow users to select a question and have the portion of the video play that answers the question.

1. Put the wmv file or files onto the broadcast server. Mr. Hall will tell you where this is.
2. Make an html file containing the questions and some code that plays the video.
3. For each question make an asx file That tells where the time-code is in the video for that question.
4. If you want for a title to show in the video window when the web page opens, make the title in Photoshop, save it as a jpg, and put it in the same folder as the html file.

Details:

For this example we are using a video that contains 6 questions. To see it for real, go to this link. The way all this works is that there is one or more very large video files (wmv files). When a user clicks on a question, an asx file (called a playlist) tells the video where to play to answer the question. Each asx file has a name like JasonStone1.asx, where JasonStone is the name of the interviewee and the number 'connects' the question with the place in the video to be played.

The images below are copies of the actual files that you will make. There will be one htm file and a separate asx file for each question. The templates for the files can be found here: P:\Multimedia Center\OralHistoryProject
You should copy the template files to the web site where your project is and change them as explained below.

Details of the HTML file:

Details of the ASX file: