14 Feb 2012 Streaming Video Online
Every time someone visits your website to see the video, which will take a significant amount of its allocated bandwidth.
For videos, you do not mind sharing, simply upload your video to YouTube, Yahoo Video or Google Video provide video sharing tools. All you need do is upload your video file to your website, copy and paste the HTML code to add video to your website.
However, if you prefer to keep the video file on your own server for easy management and privacy, please read on.
First, not to embed WMV, AVI or MPG movies directly to your website. You must convert your video file in a file format for streaming video. This way visitors can see the video, as it is downloaded (otherwise can not see anything before the video file is completely downloaded).
Starting today, the video file format more popular and commonly used for the website is Flash FLV video format.
There are reasons why Flash Video - FLV is the best option to add video to your website:
1. Flash Player is compatible with 90% or more browsers, more than any other player. Flash works on Windows, Linux. MacOS. And the flash works in all kinds of browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. By contrast, the WMV video file can only work on MS-Windows with MSIE.
Yes you can embed a Windows Media Player on your website. However, it is an ActiveX component that can not be supported by all browsers, and the upload speed is very slow.
2. Flash Video Stream is the main format used by the video websites like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, etc. Once you have your. Wmv,. Mpeg,. Avi,. Mov video converted to Flash format, you can use on your own website and share them on video websites at any time.
3. FLV Flash video streaming automatically - no special processing required file. All you need is a flash video player software or template, and play FLV video file in the transmit mode automatically.
4. Webmasters have the option of submitting custom Flash video files - video editing can be done with Adobe Flash software, you can design your own player user interface.
There are flash video software freeware and shareware that you can use without buying Adobe Flash and without having to learn any programming flash.
A flash video player software can automatically convert Windows Media files (WMV or AVI) on. For streaming FLV file, allowing you to easily integrate video in a video clip player template.
Fai Godfrey Ko, software and web developer since 1996. Developed software that includes a flash video player, web site builder, and builder interactive map.
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