Comments are important in the outside world of web design. We don't use them so much in our department, because everything is fairly straight forward. You are being showed them, however, because they are being used to explain some things about the video player we use in pages that have videos.
Comments are text that explain something that don't show up in the front end of the web page, much like the tags. They Generally go outside of the tags, so as to not throw off the flow, but they can go inside the paragraph if needed. If you look at the code at the end of this paragraph, you will see an example.
You can use comments if you are developing a page and need to temporarilly remove elements, but don't want to completely get rid of them.
Here is a video. The div class below is what you will want to copy paste into every page that has a video. It is the last piece you will need. All you should need to change is the src attribute.
Now, as you can see, this player does not work straight off of the local computer drive. If you click this link: Andrews Server Page it should be working. It could work on the local comptuer, but that involves links that are irrelevant once these are uploaded to Learning Hub.
Flowplayer only supports .flv, .mp4, and .f4v files. If you have a different file type, use Fremake Video Converter (on at least Computers 1-3 in the office) to convert the video files to one of the supported file types.
There are some courses that currently link to Youtube videos in their lessons. No course, presently, has the video embedded into an HTML page. You can do this, however (see below). Normally, if they aren't being uploaded with the html page like Descriptive Astronomy, they just use Panopto for their lectures. The example below is for just in case measures.
All you need to change above in the code is the location src location, or find the embed code on the video's page and paste it as I did. Simple.