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Placing informative or funny videos on website can be a attractive medium for attracting visitor for your website. You can easily grab attention and can convert all your website visitor to your loyal customers. If you have video presentation for your products/services which can describe your product/service in more clean and easy way then you have won your customer. Visual impact is most powerful as compare to other media forms. Video presentations are easy to digest and can last long in your memory thus your website visitor will never forget your website or your product. Before developing a video presentation you should check if your webhosting service provider allow videos to be hosted on your hosting account. Most webhost allow video hosting on their servers but its always suggested to crosscheck with your webhost to avoid frustration.
There are two different forms which can be used for hosting video on your site. HTTP streaming and Live Streaming. First of all you need to shoot/edit and create video file which you want to put on your website, then you need to upload it on your hosting account or on your server. when using http streaming method you need to embed your video file using some code within your webpages so that they can be displayed and view by your website visitors. If you are using Windows Media Files as your video files then you can use following code to embed your Video File in your webpage.
CODE : -
<OBJECT ID=?MediaPlayer? WIDTH=?192? HEIGHT=?190? CLASSID=?CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95?
STANDBY=?Loading Windows Media Player components?? TYPE=?application/x-oleobject?>
<PARAM NAME=?FileName? VALUE=?videofilename.wmv?>
<PARAM name=?ShowControls? VALUE=?true?>
<param name=?ShowStatusBar? value=?false?>
<PARAM name=?ShowDisplay? VALUE=?false?>
<PARAM name=?autostart? VALUE=?false?>
<EMBED TYPE=?application/x-mplayer2? src=?videofilename.wmv? NAME=?MediaPlayer?
WIDTH=?192? HEIGHT=?190? ShowControls=?1? ShowStatusBar=?0? ShowDisplay=?0? autostart=?0?> </EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Note : in the above code you will have to provide proper video file name which you have uploaded on your web hosting account in place of ?videofilename.wmv?
If you want you can also customized Windows Media player which would be appearing on your webpage. You can set option to show the playback controls, status indicator, size and dimension of player which would be on your webpage etc.
you should be sure that you have enough Diskspace and bandwidth, server resources allocated for your webhosting account so that all video files would be played smoothly.

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Sometimes you may face issues with playing Flash embedded videos, either they will not play or they will play but without sound which can be very irritating. This may be due to your web browser settings or may be due to older version of Flash eg YouTube embedded videos does not play smoothly in Flash 9. So if you are facing such problem you may just try to update registry, update your Flash player settings and also sound settings of your computer. But if still your problem is not solved and you are not getting audio for your flash embedded videos then final solution would be by ditching Flash 9 and going straight to the Flash 10 Beta I am sure now you can get sound and video playing smoothly with the flash player from youtube videos, embedded videos for Firefox and Chrome webbrowsers.

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Internet TV or Video over internet is boom and is getting much popularity day by day. Today there are hundreds of popular video media sharing sites all of them are totally free, you just have to register yourself and get your account and start uploading, sharing all your sweet video memories, events or whatever you want. Recently popularity of such media/video sharing sites have increased rapidly, you have many such video sharing sites available, few of them which you can try??

YouTube : Youtube is most popular and widely for sharing and finding video. You can upload any number of videos at Youtube but there is limit on file size and its duration, your uploaded video clip should not be beyond ten minutes. Due to its tremendous popularity you can spread your video far and wide across the globe.

Vimeo : Similar to Youtube but don’t have much popularity as like Youtube have so expect much views for your piece of work over here.

Revver : If you are trying to make money off your video work then this is the place for you, it’s not much into social community rather offers you and option for getting some extra revenue from your work. The Revver service will match ads to your video, and give you a piece of the action from whatever the advertiser pays. Most important thing is that when your fan plays the video on their own site, they can earn money from it too. Thus its all about making Money, money, money from your video.

Dailymotion : Dailymotion offers you some more advance features and capabilities, its heavily focus on social networking by offering you the ability to create groups, leave comments, and ratings. So if you are looking to get reviews for your creativity you can consider to have a account at Dailymotion.

iFilm : If your video is good enough, VH1 may select it to appear on its Web Junk 20 program.

MySpace Video : Brand name goes with it hence its popular but their service is not much impressive. You should just know that MySpace video exist and you should know about it.

Grouper : A unique service from SONY using which you can edit your videos and can easily upload them directly onto your site, they provide you desktop software using which you can play with your video file [ capture, edit and upload ] Good service if you just want to have basic cuts for your videos and want to get them onto your website easily.

AOL Uncut Video : Like other major search engines AOL also offers you to upload and share your video creativity by offer you AOL Uncut video services. Its much similar to Youtube but not in popularity and stability.

There are many other video sharing website but above listed video site are more popular and are reliable.

Enjoy and share your media creativity

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If you have many flv flash video format video files which you want to convert to some other video format in one go then you can use following bash script developed by Jake Hilton

If you are using ffmpeg on your dedicated server then you can use below bash script for batch convert of flv files to other required video format.

#!/bin/sh
for f in *.flv;
do
echo “Processing $f”
ffmpeg -i “$f” -target ntsc-dvd “${f%.flv}.mpg”
done

Thus using above script all flash video files having flv extension will get converted into a ntsc dvd format with file extension mpg. You can tweak it for required video format you need.
Vote of thanks to Jake Hilton http://www.jakehilton.com/?q=node/41 for sharing such excellent script

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If you have installed eAccelerator on your video hosting server for reducing server load and to increase speed of PHP code execution by optimizing PHP scripts then some times you may get binary files instead of video file while browsing video files on your website then you will have to insert following code in .htaccess file of your video server hosting account.

========== Insert below code in .htaccess file ==========

php_flag eaccelerator.enable 0
php_flag eaccelerator.optimizer 0

==================================================
By inserting above code in .htaccess file such problem should get solved.

About eAccelerator : eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelarator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It will increase performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, thus the overhead of compiling scripts is almost completely eliminated which will reduces server load and will increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

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