Videos on website

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After some advice on this one please.

Got a website that I want to have a few videos on there. Nothing fancy, nothing long, just about 30secs each but of 'reasonable' quality.

I could use YouTube, but the quality isn't very good and if I remember rightly, they now have a disclaimer saying they hold the copyright of anything uploaded.

I've seen many sites that have a flash-video, and wondering if this is a freely available plugin, or if I need the flash application to do something similar.

Failing that, if anyone knew of somekind of web-plugin that plays a video (in good quality), free to use, and is simply to add into something like WordPress.

TIA
 
IIRC correctly it is pretty simple to import a video into flash and then export that as a flash movie. It would take more time to add any controls if you wanted those as well.

I have just discoverd that DW8 allows you to insert a flash movie into your webpage and it includes controls for it. I don't know what the markup for that would be like though.

If you havn't got access to DW8 or Flash then I don't know what to suggest.
 
Mr_L said:
IIRC correctly it is pretty simple to import a video into flash and then export that as a flash movie. It would take more time to add any controls if you wanted those as well.

I have just discoverd that DW8 allows you to insert a flash movie into your webpage and it includes controls for it. I don't know what the markup for that would be like though.

If you havn't got access to DW8 or Flash then I don't know what to suggest.
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Thanks for that! We use DW8 at work so I'll ask one of the guys there if he can chuck me videos in.

Thanks again, appreciate it.
 
Just had a thought, another way you could do it is to download windows media encoder, its free and will encode pretty much anything to windows media format so it should work on any pc. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

then on your website insert the following code

Code: 
<embed
      type="application/x-mplayer2"
      pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/MediaPlayer/"
      width="640" (change to reflect width of your video)
      height="552" (change to reflect height of your video but add 72 to factor in media player controls)
      src="yourvideofilename.wmv"
      FileName="yourvideofilename.wmv"
      autostart="1"
      showcontrols="1"
      showstatusbar="1"
      showdisplay="0"
      autorewind="0"
      PlayCount="1"
      ShowPositionControls="True"
      EnablePositionControls="True"
      EnableTracker="True"
    ></embed>
 
What sort of file size should I be looking at for a 480x320 video, about 10 mins long at ok quality with the Flash encoder?

Got a few videos that i'd like to put on my website myself.

Am I right in thinking that the flash files will be smaller than the .wmv?

Cheers.
 
Got it down to a 5MB .flv file and used the Dreamweaver thing.

Didn't even load on IE/FF.

Tried the 10MB avi file as a windows media player embedded and it worked fine on IE/FF, after about 4 mins of "connecting".

Tried doing it as a stream on windows media player embedded and still the 4-5 mins wait.

Any more ideas?
 
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