QuickTime movies are best aimed squarely at the
QuickTime Player because of the multiple media types that they contain.
Linking to video
To keep 21st-century TV/movie-addicted users interested in your site, you might want to spice things up by
including a (low-bandwidth!) video or two. To add a video clip to your Dreamweaver Web page, follow
these steps:
1. Select the text, image, or dynamic element that you want to serve as the link to the video file.
If you use an image as a link, you might want to use a frame from the video clip in order to
provide a preview.
2. In the Property inspector, enter the name of the video file in the Link text field or click the Folder
icon to browse for the file. To choose a dynamic source, choose the Select File Name From Data
Sources option in the Select File dialog box. Be sure your selected data source contains either relative
or absolute links to a video file.
3. Because video files can be quite large, it??™s also good practice to note the file size next to the link
name or enter it in the Alt text field, as shown in Figure 26-9.
FIGURE 26-9
You can insert any video file for user-download by creating a link to it, as if it were a simple
Web page.
Embedding video
You can gain more control over the way your video clip plays by embedding it in the Web page with the