Embedding a video into your web pages.
In the following video, I go over the two basic ways to insert video into your web pages:
1. Using a site like Youtube.
2. Embedding the videos directly using a Flash video player.
I also get into the video formats you can use to embed video in a website:
1. Flash FLV
2. H.264
3. Quicktime video
4. Windows WMV
For details and pro’s and con’s, watch the video:
As you probably noticed, I am using Youtube to deliver this video as part of an ongoing experiment. If you can’t see the video, it is probably because your work place is blocking Youtube. Let me know and I will release another copy of the video on the killersites.com servers.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
June 8th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Wow, that’s amazing
thanks for the tutorial
June 8th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Hi,
In the video I said that 99% of web servers can view/display Flash based video. I meant to say that 99% of web browsers can.
The bottom line is that if you are doing your own video embeds, the video should probably be in the H.264 format.
Stefan
June 8th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Thanks for the tutorial Stefan, good tips.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Stefan,
Wow I am impressed at how far you’ve come with your Killer Sites, way to go! Keep up the great work.
Randy
June 9th, 2009 at 2:47 am
You are a blessing to the webdesign community. You God gives you long life and favour you in all your actiivities.
Thank you for the wonderful work. More power to your elbow. Thank you.
June 9th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Good Stuff!! Thanks for the being so devoted. Your passion for web design really comes through.
June 9th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Using YouTube for this video was a lot better than the recent video that you put out which I think was on your own servers. That video had a hard time keeping up with the motion.
Thanks as always for your useful tips.
Tom
June 9th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Hi Tom,
If you are referring to this video:
http://www.killerphp.com/videos-2009/mysql-and-php.html
… I should point out that I use Youtube their as well. Our own server may tank once and a while when some jerk comes by with a video sucker and starts sucking down all the vids at once.
Thanks for the comment.
Stefan
June 10th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Cheers Stefan
Alsways wondered how to embed video, I know how to embed swf in my web design usually I use the google recomended code. But this has l opened my eyes to other formats, thanks for the help.
June 10th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Hi Guys,
I’ve created a followup video to this one that goes into greater detail and it demonstrates how to use Youtube to embed videos into web pages:
http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/how-to-use-youtube-to-embed-videos-part-1/
Ciao
Stefan
June 12th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Rory,
In web design and web programming, there are many ways to ’skin the cat’.
Stefan
June 13th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Hi Stefan,
That was helpful info, thanks.
I’m actually looking to keep my info protected and so do not want to use YouTube.
Do you have a step-by-step video tutorial showing how to actually take a video (mine is in avi. and wmv. I believe) and get it up and running on a site?
Also, it’s a language teaching course that I’m filming, and so I really can’t afford to lose much (if any) quality. Any help would be great!
Thanks in advance,
Rob…
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Wow. I had no idea it was that simple. Thanks so much. -MWD