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.
