Playing Videos in Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver can access and use Netscape plugins to display video right in the Document window at
design time. These plugins can be installed in Netscape??™s Plugins folder, in Internet Explorer??™s Plugins folder,
or in Dreamweaver??™s own Plugins folder. Dreamweaver checks all three every time it starts up. Many plugins
come with browser-specific installation programs. You can maintain your plugins more easily if you install
the correct plugins into Netscape and enable Dreamweaver to use them from there.
Whenever a file is embedded for playback via a plugin, a green Play button appears in the Property inspector.
To play a particular video in Dreamweaver??™s Document window, all you have to do is select the Plugin
placeholder and click the Play button. The video begins playing, and the green Play button becomes a red
Stop button. To stop playback, just click the Stop button.
How can playing a video during the design phase be useful? I??™ve used this capability to sample
the background color of the page from the background of a video??™s title or ending frame so
that the video clip fits seamlessly into the page.
You can also use the menus and the corresponding keyboard shortcuts to control the digital video in the
Document window: View ??? Plugins ??? Play or Ctrl+Alt+P (Command+Option+P), and View ??? Plugins ???
Stop or Ctrl+Alt+X (Command+Option+X).
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