Adding Video to a site. The best Way?

[Bedspring]

Hi,
I have a short video that I would like to add to my site. It is in .mpg format though I am sure that can be changed. My first thought was to put it up as flash but wondered if anyone has a better idea, maybe as a youtube pop up or whatever. I have done a quick search of past threads but they all seem to be a couple of years old on this subject.
Cheers Beds

[Duncan Rounding]

Youtube would be the easiest to embed but it depends on the quality you want.
If you convert it to MP4 and host it yourself then you can use this free player here which works well: http://flowplayer.org/

[alexwren]

Hi,
wondered if anyone has a better idea

We use vzaar.com, they offer a free trial which when finished reverts to a limited account. If you upgrade then you can all sorts of stats and other nice things.

We have found that the free version works well for some of our clients as they only have a limited number of plays.

Failing that Duncan is right and even if you don't use it for your site you should put a copy on YouTube with a link to your site. Helps people to find it from another network. While you are at it you should put a copy on your FaceBook business page and link to it on Twitter.

Alex

[Bedspring]

Thanks for the replies, could anyone send me a link to a youtube video embedded on a site.
thanks

[leehack]

http://www.atlanticshopping.co.uk/ac...Lay_Z_Spa.html

[alexwren]

Hi Steve,

Best thing to do is to look at a video on YouTube. On each video (if they have allowed it) you will see an area dedicated to embed code.

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKF1Bt3SwVM and you will see on the right it has

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DKF1Bt3SwVM&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DKF1Bt3SwVM&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

This allows you to use that code to insert into your site. Don't forget that in Actinic you will need to use the 'special' Actinic HTML code if you are doing it via the content management.

Have a play with the code above and you should be able to get it embedded easily.

Alex