Best player to play videos on website???

Use jw player plugin for wordpress...
another one is flow player

With the 1st one u can host ur own videos...in case if u have unlimited b/width...

I have myself used jw player.
The videos wont play unless they r .mp4 version.
I uploaded .flv and .wmv version but they were not playing.......so use .mp4

The 2nd one u can visit their site...
flowplayer.org

Thnx

VLC. Period......

There are many web video players. Although VLC is a great video player, I'm not aware that it can be plugged into a website. On some of my sites a simple, free player I use is http flv-player.net. JWPlayer and Flowplayer have their own watermark and have special licenses for commercial use. You can also look at Easy Video Player which is not free.

With these video players, you'd typically host the video files on your own site, or use Amazon's S3 services. There are a couple players that will allow you to play a youtube video through a player on your own website, but don't bother with this. The video players mentioned are some of the best ones.

Regarding creating video for display on a website, this is a huge topic. I'm a video producer. Basically if you are going to use a flash player (all the ones listed above), you should encode into an h264 video codec and an AAC audio codec (at 48khz), in an MP4 container (aka mp4 file). Flash and therefore, all of the above players will read this natively.

If you want to make video accessible to ipads and iphones, you'll need to get an html5 video player instead of the ones mentioned. These aren't as mature or as easy to find as flash players. If you want to make sure your videos are accessible to all browsers and devices, you'll need to do a lot of research to figure out and test this process. Basically you'll need an html5 player that can downgrade to a flash player, and you'll need to encode your video into h264/mp4, webm, and ogg formats to hit all browsers.
See: http camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody

Finally, if you are going to be distributing h264 commercially then you may be subject to license fees from MPEGLA. However for even medium or large sized sites this is likely to be free.
See: http mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf

A solution to the compatibility issue and h264 licensing is to use youtube, or pay for http vimeo.com/pro which will take care of it all for you. Just encode at as high res and as high a bit rate as you can before you upload to either, as they will lose some quality.

Cory

If you want another option check out my sig, vooplayer is free for most features...you just have to opt in to register for an account.