Can Lightbox image viewer V1 be used to embed movie clips?

[kkaichan]

1) Script Title: Lightbox image viewer V1

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/lightbox/index.htm

3) Describe problem:

I followed instruction and used this script to embed images, it worked fine. And then in http://digg.com/videos, I saw they used similar script to view movie clips. I realized their script may be different, still I am curious if Lightbox image viewer V1 be used to embed movies clips? If yes, can I use it to embed MS Media Player instead of Adobe Flash Player?


I appreciate you guys' help.

Kkaichan:confused:

[NairB]

I would like to know this too.....such a hack would be wonderful. :eek:

Would anyone know how to manipulate the lightbox.js to accept SWF instead of JPG ???

Thanks,

NairB

[jscheuer1]

Does a bear swim in the woods? Actually, I would recommend DHTML Modal window:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex8/dhtmlwindow/dhtmlmodal.htm

which is very similar looking, and that I have actually seen used with videos in its iframe mode.

There is also this script:

http://particletree.com/features/lightbox-gone-wild/

What that allows you to do is to import content, as opposed to just images. But, since (as far as I know) it only uses Ajax to import content, may not be as suitable for videos which can act oddly if not given their own separate page when you are switching them about.

[kkaichan]

Thanks a lot. I've put aside this problem for a while. Let me follow your lead and work on it again.

[jscheuer1]

Since I last responded to this thread, I've run across this method for using lightbox with Flash:

http://www.brianreavis.com/?p=16

It requires PHP but, does work as will the other method I mentioned that does not require PHP.