I have tired to add an iMovie video to one of my pages, but it won't show up. I added a movie page, then dragged the movie from the desktop to the page. It plays in iWeb, but not actually ON the web. It's on the root in the right file (to my knowledge), but not playing.

The page is http://fatefirst.com/Movie.html

The other thing I've having an issue with is that I added a page to the site and told it to add it to the nav bar a the top. It's there in iWeb, but again, won't show on any page on the actual web. I've uploaded the entire site and still it won't show.

Please tell me what I'm doing wrong here.

Thank you.

Hi,

I would recommend you to follow the instructions on adding a movie with HTML5 you find on this page
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Movies.html

For what concerns the navigation menu the information is stored in a file named feed.xml and that's the file you want to upload/replace on your server.

Regards,
Cédric

I have tried to get this to work following the HTML5 instructions, but must still be doing something wrong. The movie won't show up on the page. You mention to "paste" it to the page, but where? The snipet didn't work and simply pasting the code to the page didn't work either.

As with most things, I'm sure this is something small that I'm missing, I just don't know what it is.

Of course you have to add the HTML5 code in an HTML Snippet.
There is no HTML Snippet on
http://fatefirst.com/Movie.html
hence there is no way for me to tell you what you're doing wrong.

Regards,
Cédric

Try it now.

http://fatefirst.com/Movie.html

poster="www.fatefirst.com/Movie.html" is meant to be a URL to an image, not an HTML page.

Anyway the video plays fine to me. Takes a while to load but that could either be due to a slow server, the size of the movie or the problem with poster leading to an HTML page instead of image or else.

Regards,
Cédric

Ok. Got have it going directly to the movie and not an html link. I want it to look like it's still on my page though. Judging by your comments I'll assume that's not the best thing to do. So, how do I make it look like it's still on my site with out it being an html link.

Let's try it again...

<link href="http://vjs.zencdn.net/c/video-js.css" rel="stylesheet"><script src="http://vjs.zencdn.net/c/video.js"></script><video id="my_video_1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls autoplay loop="auto" width="640" height="264" poster="www.fatefirst.com/Movie.html" data-setup="{}"> <source src="FATE Movie.mp4" type='video/mp4'> <source src="FATE Movie.webm" type='video/webm'></video>

The URL marked in red is wrong. Poster is an image. So it should read something like
http://yourdomain.com/myimage.jpg
where the image myimage.jpg is supposed to be a screenshot of the movie. You typed the URL to the page (incomplete because you didn't type http://). Again: Should be an image.

I meant to repost the link. It's http://fatefirst.com/History_files/FATE%20Movie.m4v so it links directly to the movie. You say it should be an image, can I make a movie an "image"? If so how?

Thank you for continuing to answer my questions and work with me even though it's clear you've been frustrated from the start. I appreciate it.

Why would you want to link the movie instead of embedding it?

No, a movie can't be an image.

Use this code (copy&paste) and the movie starts playing within 2 seconds

<link href="http://vjs.zencdn.net/c/video-js.css" rel="stylesheet"><script src="http://vjs.zencdn.net/c/video.js"></script><video id="my_video_1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls autoplay loop="auto" width="640" height="264" data-setup="{}"> <source src="http://fatefirst.com//Movie_files/FATE%20Movie.mp4" type='video/mp4'> <source src="http://fatefirst.com//Movie_files/FATE Movie.webm" type='video/webm'></video>