I'm somewhat further along, and a good deal more confused !!
I have found that the only video type that will display moving image in a browser WITHOUT any special embedding code in the HTML is a GIF type (now only typically used for moving atavars in weblogs etc). I can find no converter that will produce such a gif from an MPEG at a size of say 450 x 600
My problem has to be solved by changing the html to include <EMBED></EMBED> flags, and given that, there are many types of video that will play embedded video, but NONE of them can be guaranteed to run in every browser.
According to whatever players and codecs are installed on a given PC, the embedded window will use the player recorded as default player for the image type, and of those, most or all players can be the default players for most or all types of movie such as AVI,MPG,MOV,MPEG,WVP, etc etc
Therefore I have been able to standardise for my own use on MPEG for the video format, and must now decide between Quicktime, RealPlayer and MS Winwoes Media player. What do people think is the most widely-installed of these on people's PC's ??
Another question (that I dont really want an answer to) is how the F**** did we get into such a mess of tens of players and hundreds of formats??