Support for WMV video format

[ann.jensen]

Hi,
Does the newly added Insert a reference to a media resource feature in Author support WMV file formats?
Thanks in advance,
Ann

[Radu]

Hi Ann,

The support for WMV has several facets:

The "Insert Media" toolbar button can be used to find a WMV file and then to refer to it using the "video" type. This will generate some DITA content like:

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<object data="../images/Video1.wmv" outputclass="video"/>

The Oxygen Author visual editing mode cannot render right now WMV videos, we will look into this but we may not be able to find a workaround for this.

If you publish the DITA content to WebHelp or to XHTML, the generated HTML content will have the link to the WMV converted to an HTML <video> element like:

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<video controls="controls"><source src="../images/Video1.wmv"></source></video>

but web browsers do not seem to support embedding WMV, you can google for this but it seems most people recommend converting the WMV to MP4 for which Oxygen has full support.

Regards,
Radu

[ann.jensen]

Thanks for that information Radu.
Ann