AVI Video

[iLogan]

I've got an AVI video and I want to make my website have a jQuery video light box that loads it, but I don't want the user to have any control to pause the video etc

Any ideas?

[Jam]

AVI is a very outdated container, you'd be better off converting to mp4 or wmv, preferably the former.

[iLogan]

Cool, so say I converted it to mp4, what player would I use to output it on my website?

[Joe!]

You could use a flash player or html5 video. You're not going to be able to stop them pausing it though, you can hide controls, but they will be able to by right clicking.

[Jam]

Yeah. Use the HTML5 <video> tag and have a flash player as backup for browsers that don't support it.

I've tried to find a good site that used to show you how to do that but cannot find it, but it isn't too difficult. Alternatively, you could always convert it into a swf and play it like a banner ad does, but the option to right click > pause still lingers I think.