Upload Flash Movie

[The Auctioneer]

Hi

Becuase I only do this once in a blue moon, I need some help with getting a small 5 minute .flv clip into a player and uploaded on my website.

Help will be greatly appreciated.

Thx

[Bogie]

Quick and easy would be to use a software like FLV Producer Lite (http://www.flvproducer.com).

[The Auctioneer]

Hi Bogie

I downlaoded a player through a CommunityMX (Joe Balderson), so I have the player, I have the short clip, both are uploaded on my server. Here is the code. It may be as simple as inputing the url for movie and away I go. I've included the code;

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="320" height="240" title="Fr.Peter Video Clip">
<param name="movie" value="../flv player/flvplayer.fla" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="../flv player/flvplayer.fla" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="240"></embed>

Can you help with where I would put the path to my movie or how would you deal with this?

Thx



Quick and easy would be to use a software like FLV Producer Lite (http://www.flvproducer.com).

[rob]

http://www.sorensonmedia.com/

This software is the best way to do it. It's not the cheapest.

It has a reputation of creating high quality flash video clips along with nice looking players that can be changed if needed.

The price may be prohibative, but I thought that I'd toss out the high end way to do this in contrast to Bogie's low end solution.

If it's only once in a blue moon though, why not upload it to YouTube and use their embed code?

[Bogie]

If it's only once in a blue moon though, why not upload it to YouTube and use their embed code?Better if you upload to Google Video and use their embed code. Looks cleaner than YouTube's. I've been using Google Video almost exclusively now. Why use my server bandwidth when Google's is free?!

BUT you need to upload as a MPG file (preferred). That way you can upload a very highly quality video without bandwidth worries.

This client site (http://ken.mydigitalimages.ca) uses Google hosted videos

[rob]

That's good thinking there Bogie. Definatly seems a little more pro that when users click the video playing it doesn't take them to the YouTube page.

[The Auctioneer]

Sounds good to me--I'm not at home right now so I'll throw the question out. Does using the 'Google' embeded code provide video controls?

Stop/Start/Pause/Volume



Better if you upload to Google Video and use their embed code. Looks cleaner than YouTube's. I've been using Google Video almost exclusively now. Why use my server bandwidth when Google's is free?!

BUT you need to upload as a MPG file (preferred). That way you can upload a very highly quality video without bandwidth worries.

This client site (http://ken.mydigitalimages.ca) uses Google hosted videos

[rob]

Yup... giver a try. Here's some code to copy-and-paste:

<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=3754293779500828561&hl=en-CA" flashvars=""> </embed>

[Bogie]

You can choose to make your video private or public (searchable on Google). Depending on what your video is, you may want to make two versions of it. One for private (load on your website) and one for public (ends with a slide of your website URL or promo piece). That way you get free viral marketing by allowing Google to make your video searchable and able to embed on other websites.