[Dclug] How to put a video into a web page?

[Alan McConnell]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 03:17:55PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
 On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Maxwell
> Spangler<max09 at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:
> > 3) Youtube works really well and thats why so many of us enjoy using it.

> They'll also take it down randomly and make it inaccessible to both
> you and the world when they feel like it, force it to particular
> resolutions and quality settings, and inhibit people from downloading
> it. They have many interesting terms in their TOS. Just about anything
	Well spake, Gregory M!  But I suspect that M Spangler would
	agree.

> As Alan has discovered??? getting working video on your own is not easy.
> The internet is increasingly heading down a path where people are
> effectively forced to rely on services like youtube, with all their
> implications, just to put a simple video on your webpage.  Not to
	Well, let's fix that.  I look forward to getting my ONE
	LINE corrected.  And then I will write a mini-tutorial, without
	excessive detail, so that people can see a path to follow.
	The main players:  FFmpeg, and flowplayer.

> mention the proprietary, patented file formats with usage fees (but
> hey, youtube is willing and able to lose 2 million dollars a day!
> party!)
	They've got it.  I suppose everyone is aware that youtube is
	owned by google.

> Its great that those options exist, but as members of the internet
> community our response to "Hey, I just want to put a simple video on
> my pre-existing website but its really hard for some reason" shouldn't
> be "hey just use youtube".
	Words of Gold!  Perhaps the reason I like them so much is that
	I've said much the same thing several times already.

Best wishes,

Alan

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