How do I translate home videos to HTML script to embed in my website?

by wxoklp
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I have alot of home videos I want to put on my website, and it seems that the easiest way to do it would be to embed it onto my website using HTML script. Problem is, I have no clue how to convert in into HTML script. Could someone please tell me how?
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  • Profile picture of the author xenergy
    It's not that difficult in my opinion, and there're many ways of doing it.
    But first of all, you have to convert your homevideo into standard video format (like *.avi) You can use any video converter available, try to search it on download.com, many of them available for 30-days free trial.

    Once it's in avi format,you can upload it to youtube, then put the video embed script in your website. The advantage of doing this method is that you're not streaming the video from your hosting.

    Hope this help
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  • Profile picture of the author CarolinaInvestor
    Youtube is a great option as long as you dont mind everyone being able to embed your videos. Its also a great marketing tool. We use youtube as a way to funnel people to our site where our larger video library is. There are different ways to embed a video into your site. With html, you can use .wmv files and link to a media player compatable module. Kinda hard to explain in a forum. I actually went to a site that did this and clicked view from the explorer menu and source to see how someone else did it and used similar code with my video's. There is probably help on microsoft's site on this also. This does not protect your content. Anyone can view|source to see your file and retrieve it from your site. There are two other ways to go depending on how much multimedia content you have. Dotnetnuke is a content management/site development tool that has modules available to allow video delivery. Joomla, which we are testing now, seems to have some very good video delivery tools that also allow people to load videos on to your site and make it easy for you to load videos to your site also. Those are probably the best way to deliver protected video content without a lot of programming. Both look great. Our PLCMentor.com site is in dotnetnuke and is primarily a video content site. You are welcome to check it out. There is an introduction video there that uses the html method mentioned above, and the rest of the content is via a mandeeps module we purchased.
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  • Profile picture of the author netbie
    Upload your videos to youtube and embbed the codes into your website, it will save you a lot of bandwidth.
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  • Profile picture of the author cdwise
    You don't convert movies to html script. What you do is encode your home movies in a video format that will play on the web. Converting your movie to Flash will give you the most compatible format since most people have Flash installed in their browser. You then embed the Flash player in your web page (that's where the html code comes in.)

    You can also use Windows Movie Maker (free) to convert it to a wmv file. There is a free download over on the MS site. Microsoft also has free video hosting you can use as well with a Live account.

    As other said you can host your video over on youtube and use their code to add it to your website. Movies can be very bandwidth intensive so using an external streaming service like youtube, veemo, live can be very cost effective and also makes your movies available to a wider audience. Hosting yourself or using a service is something you will need to decide for yourself.
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