How to display video as icons in website?

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Is there a way to display the video in a website page as an arranges icons of videos or thumbnails, so whenever I click on one video it should open a new window to play that video? not play it in the same page.

as this code, but the target="_blank" not leading me to another page?

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<a href="video1.aspx" target="_blank">
        <object type="video/x-ms-wmv" data="Videos/clock.avi" width="320" height="255" >
            <param name="src" value="Videos/clock.avi">
            <param name="autoStart" value="0">
            alt : <a href="Videos/clock.avi">clock.avi</a>
        </object>
    </a>

Posted 7-Aug-12 12:59pm

Nuha IT

Updated 7-Aug-12 14:25pm

Wes Aday

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Aug-12 20:46pm

The term "icon" has some quite clear technical meaning; and this is not video. So, please explain what do you mean. Just small video?
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-08-07T14:51:00

Why do you think a click to that element should show video in different page? This is not how it works. Basically, you should call a JavaScript on click, create a windows with the similar content (but perhaps a different size), with <object>, and show it:

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/windowopen.htm[^],
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/obj_window.asp[^].

You will need to use the window property document to write your content to it:
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/dom_obj_document.asp[^].

Like in this sample:
http://www.javascripter.net/faq/writingt.htm[^].

—SA

barneyman · Answer 2 · 2012-08-07T15:01:00

Solution 2

you could make an animated GIF by sampling the video file, and use that an IMG tag into playing the video

The only issue there is the palette nature of GIFs creates some colour issues in the thumbnail

Posted 7-Aug-12 15:01pm

barneyman