video for the net

hargi

hargi

hargi

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I have a video that needs to go on the net.
My mate has done it as a AVI that works on computers with the new windows media player but not on the older versions. Obviously we cant put this out, as most of the computers we use here are on the old version.

I have the AVI file, After effects and Premier,
What would be the best way of making this most accessable.
It will be hosted on our server.

Cheers
 
I would say Flash because it's the one video format that can be played across multiple OS's and browsers. You can use something like YouTube if you're not bothered about the encoding or you can do the encoding yourself and choose the resolutions and quality, I'm not certain how you go about playing a FLV (flash encoded video) in a browser, I think you need a flash applet to play it.

Flash video is one of the reasons (as well as broadband) that video on the internet became viable. Before flash we had things like Quicktime, Realplayer, Windows Media Player which not everyone had installed and as you said people were running various versions. This is why video on the Internet was not very popular until the likes of YouTube came along and started using Flash.
 
Apologies for jumping in here, dont mean to hijack your thread.

I'm in the same boat.

I have two video files in the form of MPEGS, both @100Mb each that I want to include in a website page.

What did you use to convert to FLV?.
 
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