How to embed video in your website
You have blog, but maybe bored with only posting script on them; you want your blog have video like Youtube or you can stream your own DV; Ok, this article will give you a detail instruction.
You know Youtube streaming videos are flash video, that is because flash video (flv) is the best format to stream on web.
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So how hard is it to put Flash video on your own website? Well, it takes some effort - and it also consumes bandwidth on your site.
If you're looking for a quick fix for your personal "free" site, and you can't afford to pay for the bandwidth charges video can rack up, you should consider one of the free video hosting services. These services take care and host your video for you... but they do it in a way that promotes their company. If that doesn't bother you, check out YouTube(http://www.youtube.com)Google Video (http://video.google.com) and StreamLoad. These are great services and I recommend them to beginners.
Now, the rest of this article will assume you want to do this yourself - because you don't want to promote another company on your website, because your video doesn't fit the guidelines and limits of the free services, or because you just don't want to look like an amateur.
So how do we create Flash video and put it on our website without spending hundreds of dollars? The following tutorial shows how to do it. first assumes you have Windows XP and are using Windows Movie Maker plus other third part application.
Similar techniques can be used with other operating systems and software. Linux users will most likely use FFMPEG directly. See the encoding HOWTO on the FlowPlayer site for more information. MacOS X users can also go the ffmpeg route after exporting to "DV quality" from iMovie. Or they can spend the money for Adobe/Macromedia's Flash Studio 9 software.
The Basis
Here’s a summary of what needs to be done.
1)Convert the video file into a suitable format for Flash players.
2)Upload the converted file onto hosted account.
3)Paste HTML code snippet into the web page.
Flash players can only play video files encoded into the FLV (Flash Video) format, which is also the format used by Google Video and YouTube.
First step to convert the video file into a suitable format for Flash players.
1. Create your video. We have DV, phone camera to record everything around us. Ok, save them in appropriate formats; here formats like wmv, avi, 3pg (from phone camera), mp4 even DVD, CD are alright, they are support by the below third part application we will use to convert such formats to flv.
2. I have referred a third part application:
http://www.flash-on-tv.com/video-to-flash.html
video to flash encoder; anyway, you can find hundreds of similar software in Google or download.com; you can use other to convert as you wish; but here I prefer high quality and more edit function in this application;
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Start the Video to Flash Encoder:
load file > choose flv as output formats > setting > start;
Ok, finish creating flv file and rename your file, here name as myownmovie.flv;
[here is an advice: most of time you should set your video output bitrates; Higher bitrates take longer to download and can ring up bandwidth charges with your ISP... but the quality of the video is much better. Make choices that work for you. If the original audio is high quality music, you might select a higher bitrates such as 128 (kilobits). However, most of the time, you'll be concerned about using too much bandwidth, so 56 is a more realistic setting. "Channels" will be set to stereo or mono, based on what your original movie contains. If it is set to mono, there's no point changing it - you can't really create stereo that was never there! If it is set to stereo, you have the option of reducing it to mono to save bandwidth.]
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