I've got a 30mb video I'm trying to embed in a webpage...I want the video to be available to as many people as possible so I assume I need to convert the file to something else...like an mpeg or avi file, right?

Regardless, I've tried embedding it by creating a flash file but then get the warning that the active.js script is needed and I don't understand when googling, the 'you need to upload the js file to the same folder as the html' because there is no js file that is created.... So then I tried converting the video to a avi file and it just makes the file bigger and long as hell to load. So I tried using swfobject and that ain't doing shit either.... What is the best (fastest, smallest) way to get a 30mb video to play on a webpage???????

8/1/2010 7:19:38 PM

any reason you don't want to use youtube or some other video uploading site?

8/1/2010 7:39:36 PM

convert to flash, embed using longtail video player.

Or if you've got a copy of flash it should make quick work of this. Or frontpage/expression web/dreamweaver/etc.

8/1/2010 7:42:30 PM

^

convert to .flv with: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
embed with: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/

[Edited on August 2, 2010 at 7:31 AM. Reason : that's what he said!]

8/2/2010 7:30:30 AM

If it's encoded in h.264 with aac audio, you might be able to rename it to .mp4 and serve it in a <video> element for the iPlatform, Safari, Chrome, and IE9
then transcode it to WebM for Firefox and Opera and anyone who can get the new Open Codecs to work in IE8 and lower: http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html#markup

fuck everyone else

8/2/2010 10:36:44 AM

use .wmv and embed with the embed tag. It will work on 90% of computers.

8/2/2010 10:40:55 AM

use silverlight if you want it to work on macs.

8/2/2010 10:41:27 AM

lol, shaggy wins

Seriously though, I've got like $400 worth of software that will rip through this. Send me a link and a FTP password and you'll have a webpage lickety-split.

8/2/2010 2:56:03 PM

Well I uploaded it to youtube and the quality is pretty shitty...

I don't know enough about video/codecs/etc to know why it's so difficult. I have CS3 and I downloaded a converter to convert the m4v to avi and it worked, but made it bigger and crappier quality....and the load time was eons.

In general, what's the most efficient way to have video on a website other than uploading it to youtube?


wwwebsurfer, I'd send you the link, but I'm curious what you're going to do with it cause I'm thinking I could do the same thing....no?

8/2/2010 4:29:16 PM

Quote :

"In general, what's the most efficient way to have video on a website other than uploading it to youtube?"

tell me again, what didn't work using:

Quote :

"convert to .flv with: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html embed with: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/"

because i do it all the time and it MIGHT take 5 minutes for the whole process

8/2/2010 4:44:54 PM

:/

Is Super just for windows?
Are there ads that run with the free longtail version?

8/2/2010 4:51:46 PM

are you on a mac? 'Cause if so you might be up a creek in terms of free tools.

Try MediaEncoder from sourceforge. Encode it to .flv using high settings.

8/2/2010 6:25:31 PM

well I've got both a mac and pc....I think I might actually already have SUPER installed on my PC, I'll have to check. I was attempting to keep this to one computer but I guess that won't be the case.

As for longtail, that can't be a windows/mac thing can it?

8/2/2010 9:27:58 PM

^^^^a better solution is flowplayer: http://flowplayer.org/

8/2/2010 11:59:16 PM

Agreed, use Flowplayer.

8/3/2010 12:09:53 AM

why not just embed it as a quicktime object?

8/3/2010 12:44:16 AM

QuickTime doesn't exist on Linux, or on Android smartphones...but Flash does

probably the easiest cross-platform solution is to send off an mp4 to the iPhone (and Safari, Chrome, and IE9) and Flash video to everyone else, using a variant of this technique: http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody

8/3/2010 3:16:49 AM

QuickTime is also complete and utter ass.

Might as well just use RealPlayer.

Though I'm very confused why lewisje is constantly talking about IE9 as though it's not a browser in a relatively early beta.

8/3/2010 9:16:37 AM

Quicktime plays m4v, so it should embed just like any old video file.

8/3/2010 9:28:55 AM

welp....just used flowplayer and it couldn't have been easier.

Thanks guys!

I still don't understand why there are 8 million ways to embed videos and some work and some don't etc etc etc...but this worked this time so AWESOME!

8/3/2010 1:49:29 PM

^^^just letting people know about the future

it will be grand

8/3/2010 2:08:16 PM