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Jonathan.
Jonathan.

Reputation: 55534

playing any video on a website (flash, divx, avi/wmv (m2ts/mts, mkv?))

How can I embed any type of video onto a webpage, youtube seems to be able to upload any type of video and I'd like to know if I can do that too without huge amounts of resources and money (the website would be very small with definitely under 100 member, most likely under 50)

Is there a player that plays all formats, or would I have to use different players?

Also on HD videos I'd like to have a SD option.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 11055

Answers (5)

Jonathan.
Jonathan.

Reputation: 55534

Decided to use Divx webplayer, as it does avi, divx, and mkv (mts can convert to mkv easily)

Upvotes: 1

jspcal
jspcal

Reputation: 51894

  • shwup.com can host collaborative video albums to share amongst friends / family / classrooms only. unlimited uploads. since you want private sharing.

  • another cool way is to use one of the video APIs to upload/encode to the cloud, e.g.: YouTube Data API, Vimeo API, Hey!Watch, Orb, Phanfare

  • For players: JW Player is pretty nice.

  • Flowplayer is great as well.

  • if you have ffmpeg on your host, that can easily handle conversion between most popular formats

  • if you're doing tons of encoding and self-hosting the files, another option is uEncode.com - an on-demand web service to convert between formats

  • also you could just upload the files to a regular account on one of the sharing sites like youtube, veoh, and embed them in your site. let them provide the bandwidth :)

Upvotes: 4

ceejayoz
ceejayoz

Reputation: 179994

YouTube uses ffmpeg (free and open-source) to convert uploaded video to a Flash format for embedding. You can do the same, if you like.

Upvotes: 1

albertein
albertein

Reputation: 27120

I use JW Player: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player

Upvotes: 1

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 798456

There is no player that plays all formats. You would either have to restrict the containers and codecs usable, or farm off reencoding to another process.

Upvotes: 2

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