disintergrator
July 18th, 2006, 07:44 PM
I hope someone can help me with this. Ok, I apologize before hand that I am somewhat new to this stuff, and may not understand everything. What I am wanting to do is to put a video player onto myspace page that will play more than one video. I found the following instructions on multiple sites that claim the code will allow me to do so:
1. Open Notepad, wordpad, or any other plain text program
2. Copy and paste the following code into the document:
<ASX version="3.0">
<title>MyGen.co.uk Video Playlist</title>
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
</ASX>
3. Replace SONG NAME HERE with the name of the song.
4. Replace ARTIST HERE with the artist of the song.
5. Replace VIDEO URL HERE with the URL to the video you want. You can get this URL by right click on the video while it is playing, click Properties, then copy the Location URL.
*NOTE - IF YOU WISH TO ADD MORE THAN 5 VIDEOS, JUST PUT THE FOLLOWING TEXT BEFORE THE *
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
6. Once you have all the videos you want, go to Save As, and save the file as Playlist.asx.
7. Now, upload the Playlist.asx to a host such as Angelfire, or Yahoo's Geocities or your own personal host.
8. Once you have your URL address to your Playlist.asx, Go to the Video Code Generator and put the URL to your Playlist.asx in.
Now put the code provided into your profile, and your video playlist is ready to use! Simple use the Next and Previous buttons to scroll through it!
My version of the code, once completed, was this (only using 2 videos now, until the problem is resolved):
<ASX version="3.0">
<title>MyspaceUnlimited.com Video Playlist</title>
<Entry>
<title>Tornado</title>
<author>Mindlesss Self Indulgence</author>
<Ref
href="http://www.videosultan.com/videocode.php?i=1
1562&k=Tornado"/>
</Entry>
<Entry>
<title>Bring the Pain</title>
<author>Mindless Self Indulgence</author>
<Ref
href="http://www.videosultan.com/videocode.php?i=1
1561&k=Bring_The_Pain"/>
</Entry>
</ASX>
Now, once I completed all that, I went to the Video/Flash Generator, and the first thing the ask for is the URL to the file. I put that in, and then it asks for the filetype and it automatically has Flash (.swf) already chosen, so I leave it alone (the other choices are mpeg, wmv, avi, quiktime, & realmedia). I then put in the width and height (I usually use 350x300). And then I hit the test and preview button. It generates the code, but gives no preview, and I assume maybe their previewer is broken and use the code anyway. When I put it into my profile on myspace, it does actually put a video player up, but it will not play anything (see www.myspace.com/dot0069 for detail).
Now, below I will give you the code I put into my profile on myspace.
<VIDEO PLAYER CODE>
<embed allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" src="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/15/132298/playlist2.asx" width="350" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
I can not think of anything else that I should be including here, but if you need to ask me any questions to clarify or anything, please feel free. Thank you in advance for the help and time.
***instructions for the notepad code part came from
http://www.mygen.co.uk/index.php?page=tutorials§ion=videoplaylist
***instructions for the video/flash generator came from
http://www.mygen.co.uk/index.php?page=generators§ion=video
1. Open Notepad, wordpad, or any other plain text program
2. Copy and paste the following code into the document:
<ASX version="3.0">
<title>MyGen.co.uk Video Playlist</title>
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
</ASX>
3. Replace SONG NAME HERE with the name of the song.
4. Replace ARTIST HERE with the artist of the song.
5. Replace VIDEO URL HERE with the URL to the video you want. You can get this URL by right click on the video while it is playing, click Properties, then copy the Location URL.
*NOTE - IF YOU WISH TO ADD MORE THAN 5 VIDEOS, JUST PUT THE FOLLOWING TEXT BEFORE THE *
<Entry>
<title>SONG NAME HERE</title>
<author>ARTIST HERE</author>
<Ref href="VIDEO URL HERE" />
</Entry>
6. Once you have all the videos you want, go to Save As, and save the file as Playlist.asx.
7. Now, upload the Playlist.asx to a host such as Angelfire, or Yahoo's Geocities or your own personal host.
8. Once you have your URL address to your Playlist.asx, Go to the Video Code Generator and put the URL to your Playlist.asx in.
Now put the code provided into your profile, and your video playlist is ready to use! Simple use the Next and Previous buttons to scroll through it!
My version of the code, once completed, was this (only using 2 videos now, until the problem is resolved):
<ASX version="3.0">
<title>MyspaceUnlimited.com Video Playlist</title>
<Entry>
<title>Tornado</title>
<author>Mindlesss Self Indulgence</author>
<Ref
href="http://www.videosultan.com/videocode.php?i=1
1562&k=Tornado"/>
</Entry>
<Entry>
<title>Bring the Pain</title>
<author>Mindless Self Indulgence</author>
<Ref
href="http://www.videosultan.com/videocode.php?i=1
1561&k=Bring_The_Pain"/>
</Entry>
</ASX>
Now, once I completed all that, I went to the Video/Flash Generator, and the first thing the ask for is the URL to the file. I put that in, and then it asks for the filetype and it automatically has Flash (.swf) already chosen, so I leave it alone (the other choices are mpeg, wmv, avi, quiktime, & realmedia). I then put in the width and height (I usually use 350x300). And then I hit the test and preview button. It generates the code, but gives no preview, and I assume maybe their previewer is broken and use the code anyway. When I put it into my profile on myspace, it does actually put a video player up, but it will not play anything (see www.myspace.com/dot0069 for detail).
Now, below I will give you the code I put into my profile on myspace.
<VIDEO PLAYER CODE>
<embed allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" src="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/15/132298/playlist2.asx" width="350" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
I can not think of anything else that I should be including here, but if you need to ask me any questions to clarify or anything, please feel free. Thank you in advance for the help and time.
***instructions for the notepad code part came from
http://www.mygen.co.uk/index.php?page=tutorials§ion=videoplaylist
***instructions for the video/flash generator came from
http://www.mygen.co.uk/index.php?page=generators§ion=video