Need helping adding videos to a straight HTML page

I suspect part of your problem is band width. When you use Youtube you get the benefit of their servers and bandwidth which is considerable. all I could suggest is test it with just a single video first. also finding and embedding a suitable player can be a challenge though there are several out there.

I have used jwplayer and not had this problem before. Post a link to your site so we can look at the code.

Travis, I make the videos 640x480 mp4 in Camtasia, then upload them to screencast(dot)com I am not an affiliate. It's a free account for up to 2 gigs storage and 2 gigs per month download... larger than that $10 per month.

Once the videos are uploaded, while in screencast, there is a small column of icons on the left hand side of each video (in my account at screencast), and clicking one of those icons gives you the embed code.

It even includes a player, so you don't need to add a player to the site.

I drop that code into the HTML in Dreamweaver at the places where I want the videos.

That's all there is to it.

Just for grins, you can then resize the video in the code by changing the sizes in the code. For example if the video is 640 width, by 480 high, I just change those (in the code) to whatever size I want instead of going back into Camtasia and recreating the file.

A 640x480 can become 480x320.

The video player shows up on the site, and the videos can play. You can add as many videos as you wish to a webpage.

I sent a PM with a link to an example website using this.

:-Don