Flash & Video Files

This page demonstrates the mechanism used by the CMS to display Flash or video files. These present particular problems for the CMS, specifically...
  • Video files can be in a number of formats, eg WMV, AVI, MOV, MPG etc.
  • Flash movies are often interactive
  • File sizes can be very large
  • Movies can be of any pixel size
  • The size cannot be ascertained programmatically via the CMS, as is the case with JPEGs
The current version of our CMS handles Flash and video files as follows...
  • The files are displayed as icons - one for video and one for Flash - with optional titles beneath.
  • Clicking on the icon or title opens video files in the browsers default video player
  • Clicking on the icon or title opens Flash files in a new window
  • A prompt to download the file is automatically added beneath video file links.
  • A link to the Macromedia Flash download site is automatically added beneath Flash file links.