How to include videos on a website?

[frankfriend]

Can anyone suggest a good source of information for including videos on a website? I will shortly have a video of a presentation and I'd like to be able to include it on a site.i do not know what format it will be in or which ones are the most suitable.

Many thanks

 

[nterror]

http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/

I use the JW FLV Player on my site. There are plugins and skins available for it. My videos are high quality H.264 MPEG-4 (MP4). This format also produces smaller file sizes. This is a nice plus because old DivX/Xvid looks horrible in comparison.

They also have a Wizard to create the HTML code:
http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-setup-wizard

Handbrake
http://handbrake.fr/

Handbrake is a good starting off program to convert to MP4. There are others like MeGUI but are for more advanced users. SO KEEP THE ORIGINAL VIDEO in case you want to dive into that later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264

 

[playminigames]

you can use youtube, i think it would be the easiest, but ive never dealt with video on a website, so i dont know how much help i am, but i hope i helped. Good luck!

 

[miguelkp]

you can use youtube, i think it would be the easiest

Yes. You can even embed a custom player with your uploaded videos or a playlist. I use this on my website

http://www.youtube.com/custom_player

 

[nterror]

The JW FLV Player I linked to earlier also lets you use YouTube videos. (Just upload the yt.swf file included with the JW FLV Player). See this example from their wizard:
http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-setup-wizard?example=5

Plus, you can skin it, so it matches your site (I think the YouTube players look ugly).

Vimeo-like overlay skin:
http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-setup-wizard?example=42

 

[ah-blabla]

I would use the html5 video tag (Draft spec. of the tag here)-- this is the new "standard" way of embedding video using ogg theora - you can find ogg theora encoders here. Since not all browsers support that tag yet, there is a handy javascript (GPL v2) provided by metavid.org, which lets any browser play the video, and it can use a java based applet video player if your browser doesn't happen to have an ogg plugin. If you use the html 5 video system + this javascript, your video will play on almost any browser without any problems, no matter what plugins or software you have on the computer.

Please don't use flash, it is slow, horrible, and proprietary.

 

[frankfriend]

Hi everyone,
Thank you for the advice! It is very much appreciated

 

[2expression]

youtube embeed stuff works aswell