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Hi,
i want to upload flv videos to products just as as pictures.

any ideas?

same here!!
would be very nice to have an option to play media files!

Hoth - 03 April 2008 04:46 PM

Hi,
i want to upload flv videos to products just as as pictures.

any ideas?

I have used flvs in the descriptions, not sure I understand your question though.  Why would you want to use a flash video as a picture?
If you mean replace the standard product images with FLVs, I don’t know but would guess that would be quite a big programming overhaul, but only a good programmer could answer that for sure.  Who knows maybe in admin you can just point the upload images to a swf and see what happens. LOL That would be funny if it actually worked.

But like I said, not sure I follow your question. If you want to use flvs in the descritptions I can help with that.  Its quite easy to do.

Is this what you guys want to do?
http://www.epicurecookware.com/copper-ruffoni/opera-cookware/opera-products/stockpot-8-75in.html
scroll down to bottom half of page.  Daylilly, has nothig to do with product of course, but just to demonstrate.  and will of course work with flvs which have audio as well, that just happens to be one I found quickly and embedded it for example.

AnnaM
Yes!! I want to put videos in the descriptions as you have!! Tell me how to do it please.

Thank you very much
Andrea

Sure, I don’t know what your flash expereince is, but this is assuming you know how to create a swf with a FLV embedded in it.  Once you do, you simply publish it as any flash project, and put the resutling html it gives you in the description.  One caution is the skin must have the full url to it, in other words, on the Component Inspector
you click the skin and tick Custom.  Then I entered
http://www.epicurecookware.com/images/ArcticExternalPlaySeekMute.swf

If you don’t specify precisely where the skin is, the flv will show but not the skin.  Normally you can just have the skin in the same folder as the flv and its fine, but in Magento that does not work, becasue of dynamic page creation I presume from the templates etc, thus the flash project swf must have the precise location of the skin via the full url. That I found out thanks to a fellow on the forum here, thanks to him again!

If you don’t know how to create an flv, then its a much longer ‘lesson’ You must use Premiere and output your project as an FLV, upload it to your site, and then in Flash do File, Import Video, and type in the full url where the flv is.  etc etc.  I plan to create quite a few of these, promoting product lines, commericials so to speak. They are most effective.

AnnaM

Thank you for your qick answer. It’s not the common in much cases

Let’s suposse I am given the video files (not publishing myself). ¿What html have I put and where? You directly paste html code in that field as you should do in an html editor?

And thank you very much again

Andrea

That would depend on what type of video file it is.  There are methods to embed Real Video, Windows Media, Flash.  Each of them creates a ‘player’ on the page with a transport (play-pause etc butttons), and yes involves the proper html and the name and path to the video.

My experience with windows media is they always auto play which I dont like, even though there is a parementer auto-play=no, it ignores it and auto plays it anyway.  At least last time I tried which was some time ago.

But you can probably try googling
embed real video
or
embed windows media
and get articles that will show you the methodologly, the code you need to put in your descritpion.l

Ok, I’ll try with flv files.

Thank you
Andrea

I was having trouble embedding a youtube video into the product description but it turned out to be an issue with dataflow import (and maybe magic quotes). All quotes were doubling up so none of the links were working. After copying and pasting the original version it all works as expected.