Adding a Video to Web Page

Videos can be very useful in tutorials and presenting music videos and other interesting content in a website. Still, before you append any video to your website, it's good to understand some things:

1) Videos can take significant amounts of web space

2) Videos use alot of bandwidth. Every time someone clicks the video running and watches it, you have lost bandwidth equal amount to the size of the video.

3) Videos shouldn't be the only source of information on the website, you should offer visitors a possibility to read all the information that is shown on videos.

Be certain to evaluate how much your videos will suck up your bandwidth and how much you have it for your disposal. You might exceed your limits and be charged an extra payment by your web host.

How to Upload and Embed a Video?

Uploading a Video

Well, nothing special really, first you must upload your video to your web server. You may be willing to make a file called "video" and save it there. The address to your video will be something like http://yoursite.com/videos/MyVideo.avi.

Embedding a Video

Apple has a brilliant web player, the universal code for it is:

Be sure that the width and height attributes are good for your needs, you may hassle with the values freely.

The address http://www.yoursite.com/videos/MyVideo.avi must be altered too.

The following attributes can be either true or false:

1) controller - Defines if there is a play are video controls like play and stop buttons.

2) autoplay - This attribute tells the browser if it should play the video right away without user clicking play button.

The attribute pluginspace will prompt users to download the player plugin if they don't have it yet.