Adding videos to your website can be for both entertainment and informative purposes.
There are numerous video sharing sites where you can embed videos you find into your website.
You can also make your own and either upload them to these video sharing sites, or host the videos yourself on your server.
Making your own videos is easy as there are some good video editing software programs around and some of them best ones are free.
Video Sharing Sites
There are new video sharing websites popping up every day.You can get a lot of useful content from embedding videos from these websites as well as uploading your own videos to them.
Popular video sharing sites:
Simple ways to add videos to your website
Magnify.net
Lets you create your own branded video channel, which you can Control.
You can not only create a channel and include widgets that display videos from your channel on your website or blog, you can also choose a template, design a page and mirror your existing websites header and footer. (this page isn't hosted on your own website)
Click here to see an example
Embedded Media HTML Generator
Do you have a video or animation file and don't know the embed code to put it on your website? This great HTML generator can make the code for you!
All you need to do is select your media type, fill out a simple form, click submit, and copy and paste the generated HTML into your Web page.
Plumi
Plumi enables you to create your own sophisticated video sharing site.
You have to be running the Plone Content Management System, then you can add the Plumi system to it.
By adding it to an existing Plone instance you can quickly have a wide array of functionality to facilitate video distribution and community creation.
Click here for demo of Plumi in action
YourMinis Youtube Widget
A completely customizable widget which is so easy to use.
Change the embed codes for videos
Of course, you can just use the regular embed code you get from places such as YouTube.
You can change the size if you want
You can adjust the size of you video by changing the code in red below.
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RouRQexcU3c"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RouRQexcU3c" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
Make Videos Auto Play
You can also make your YouTube and Google videos play automatically by adding the below (in red, straight after the video ID) Only do video on a page though, otherwise you will have them all starting at the same time....
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RouRQexcU3c"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RouRQexcU3c&autoplay=1 " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
For EVERYTHING you want to know about video embedding and I mean LOTS of handy hints click the link below.
Everything You Ever Needed To Know About Video Embedding
Add Your Own Flash Players
If you don't want to use the file sharing sites to host your videos, but still want to display them as flash files easily on your website, then there are a few good programs around that make adding your videos in their own flash players to your website easy.
Coffee Cup Web Video Player $39
This affordable and easy program can convert
MPGs, AVIs, MOVs, FLVs and WMVs to Flash.
You just choose your video, the skin of your player, the size you want and the program does everything for you. Gives you the files to upload and the code to copy and paste into your website.
Video Web Wizard $67
Can convert
AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, FLV, VOB, ASF, and MP4 Video Formats into flash.
Has the option to automatically redirect the viewer to a website address after the movie has ended (great for marketing videos)
Easy step by step interface with 9 different players to choose from.
JW FLV Player (free)
Free flash program that can play FLV and MP3 files and you also have the option to create playlists.
There are
plugins for inserting the JW FLV Player into various Content Management Systems such as Wordpress, Joomla, Dragonfly, Coppermine Gallery, Drupel and many others. You can view some demo options via this link.
YouRipper (free/$10 donation)
Click on the YouRipper button at the top of the main page at the remlapsoftware.com site to learn about YouRipper.
YouRipper is a small, easy to use utility which enables the end-user to download videos from the major video sharing websites such as YouTube.
YouRipper also enables Webmasters, Bloggers and MySpace Hosts to Embed videos from YouTube etc into their own pages, using a generic, fully customizable video player.
You can even create video playlists! Click here for a playlist demo.
Make Your Own Video Site
AlstraSoft Video Share Enterprise ($300)
Don't want to just add a few videos to your site?
Make your own complete video sharing site!
AlstraSoft Video Share Enterprise is the solution for starting your video sharing and uploading site just like Youtube, DailyMotion and MySpace Videos.
It has an interface very similar to Youtube.
Check out the site links below to see it in action.
http://www.merovideo.com/
http://www.yourtechtv.com/
http://www.tonclip.com/
Upload Videos to Multiple Sites
Especially if you have a video which you are using to market your website or a particular product or service, uploading the video to multiple sites at the same time can save you a LOT of time and quickly increase your videos exposure.VidMirror (free)
Helps you to easily upload your videos to multiple video hosting services such as Youtube and Google Video. It then gives you code to include on your website that will let your visitors choose from among the video copies.
Good way to avoid having a blank video on your website when one is unexpectedly removed. Allows people to choose from other sources as well.
Vidmetrix (free)
Automatically upload your videos to YouTube, Myspace, Metacafe, Google, Yahoo, Revver, and Veoh
TubeMogul (free)
Upload videos to:
Google Video, Metacafe, MySpace Video, Yahoo!, Revver, and YouTube all at once.
HeySpread (free)
Upload to all these video websites at once.
YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Google Videos, Yahoo Videos, Dailymotion, Blip.tv, Photobucket, Metacafe Revver, Veoh, Vsocial, Vimeo, Putfile
Video Upload Pro ($147)
Upload to 18 of the most popular video sharing websites (more being added soon)
Desktop based program
Current sites supported:
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