How to host videos at hosting A, but stream and play on hosting B? Best video player?

[optimuswarrior]

Hi, I have two hosting accounts with two companies. One is a small local company where all my main sites are. And the other is a GoDaddy deluxe account that I've had for a while.

I'd like to have the godaddy hosting account host my video files and then have them linked to or streamed into the locally hosted websites.

Questions: 1) what software/players are my options? Are there streaming or embed options?

2) what format do the videos have to be encoded in?

The reason why I don't want to put my videos on youtube or vimeo are:
1) I already have the GoDaddy account anyway, which has high bandwidth and space caps.
2) The videos will show in a private password protected site...thus no sense in having them accessible in the public.

Your recommendations?

[Hackbridge]

What format are the videos? Had a look on Google and found this for you.

WWW FAQs: How do I add video to my website?

Brian

Originally Posted by optimuswarrior

Hi, I have two hosting accounts with two companies. One is a small local company where all my main sites are. And the other is a GoDaddy deluxe account that I've had for a while.

I'd like to have the godaddy hosting account host my video files and then have them linked to or streamed into the locally hosted websites.

Questions: 1) what software/players are my options? Are there streaming or embed options?

2) what format do the videos have to be encoded in?

The reason why I don't want to put my videos on youtube or vimeo are:
1) I already have the GoDaddy account anyway, which has high bandwidth and space caps.
2) The videos will show in a private password protected site...thus no sense in having them accessible in the public.

Your recommendations?

[optimuswarrior]

Hi, thanks. I've already been using flv (flash videos), just wanted to see if there is anything better.

And is there any good AVI to flv converter out there? Doesn't have to be free, but should be cheap, as it's just a conversion. I used to have a macromedia flash converter that came with Dreamweaver 8, but I've lost it. It worked well.

Some of the new converters have so many options to tweak that it's hard to figure out which will get the best quality for its size.

[Hackbridge]

Any video converter. There's a free version and a paid but cannot tell you how much it costs. Here's the sales page (non affiliate) Forgot the link http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video/

Brian

[Loren Woirhaye]

Well, you can actually just put them with the players on
your GoDaddy account and have them viewable in frames
on your membership site. That's a hack approach.

What you want to do is not too tricky. I think most players,
JWPlayer, MPWPlayer, and so forth will do it. You just have
to learn a few quirks of the individual players.

I use Josh Anderson's players often and with them you have
to go in and edit about 3 files to host a video "remotely"
(term I'm using for what you want to do). I expect other
players likewise require you to go in and change a few files.
It's not hard to do, you just have to make sure every file
in the player knows where to go to get the video itself.

[optimuswarrior]

Hi, thanks.

Now, to flip the question, and the answer to this is probably obvious, but if I don't host the videos remotely, they are on a folder inside my membersite site, on the same hosting provider, do have to tweak any of these players or do they work really easily out of the box?

And which players do you recommend and what is the cost for them? I assume that they don't convert the video for me, I have to have the video ready in the right format before I install the software first.

Well, you can actually just put them with the players on
your GoDaddy account and have them viewable in frames
on your membership site. That's a hack approach.

What is that, for have them viewable in frames? Is that like embedding them on my other hosted site? Does it play on the page of the other site still or take the visitor to a different page to view?