Letting people view a video on your site

[knights1]

If I have the file of a video on my computer and want to put it on my site, what code do I have to use? I assume i'll have to upload it to my site.

Derek

[etechsupport]

That depends upon what your site about and what file formats you wish to accept.

[lesterofpupets]

If you want, for example, a Windows Media File available for download,

<a href="videodirectory/filename.wmv">Badass Video!</a>

There are different ways for embeding different files and making the embed work in different browsers, IIRC. Been a long time since I've considered embeding Audio or Video.

Google searches for

embed windows media video
AND
embed quicktime video

should offer plenty of help if that's what you want.

[knights1]

I would rather be having the windows media player playing in the browser, but a download is fine...

Derek

[tedster]

More and more, I prefer embedding all multimedia in a Flash file. Flash allows streaming without special server software, and also pre-solves many cross-platform (and cross-browser) issues. Also, the Flash plug-in has a huge market penetration, arguably the deepest of any media player out there.

[soapystar]

isnt flash blocked by default with a lot of firewall suites?