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how to insert avi file to webpage

Posted on November 22, 2014

I have installed LAMP using your tut but with great help from userbmichelsen

I tried to play a avi file from my index page using the code:-

<embed src=“http://localhost/srv/http/file.avi”></embed>

The play appears in the webpage but nothing plays, I think its something to do with the path.

Please could someone advise me, I have trying to setup my own webserver in house would be very grateful if someone could please help. many thanks Lindu2



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Its not a big video its just a 5 second file made with blender, this is a learning curve for me, I understand different browse, different file format, so let just start with IE, and could you tell me please if you are hosting on your LAMP server what the path I should use for src= ??? can you help on this and thanks for the quick reply much apreciated

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