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

[Alan McConnell]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:28:43AM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Joseph S D Yao<jsdy at tux.org> wrote:
> > Alan,
> >
> > As mentioned before, if you want a link, you just do this:
> >
> > <a href="videos/mycoolvideo.flv">Click to see my cool video!</a>
> >
> > If you wish to actually have it appear taking up space on your Web site,
> > as Morgan said, use <object>:
> 
> Thats pretty unlikely to work for many people,
	An understatement<g>.  Simply <a href>-ing my video file causes
	my firefox to ask: Should I download this or open it with
	mplayer?  and if I click on mplayer, the slow accessing of
	data begins.

Some comments:
1.  The video I'm working with was, for many months, on Google Videos,
but got taken off, probably because it concerned itself with events
in July 2007.  I want to put up a copy on _my_ site, under _my_
control!

2.  I have spent a couple of weeks dealing with the arcana of ffmpeg.
I finally got one of the developers to help get a version of ffmpeg,
and the requisite codecs, to work.  (Imagine!  I actually had to go
through the cycle of ./configure, make, make install!  Really got my
hands dirty like back in the Old Days)  The point is: the Flash Video
format is used by "everyone" -- see the Wikipedia article -- and
is open enough so that a program like ffmpeg can create a file in
that format.

3.  I want something which will work as well as e.g. youtube.  But
I don't want to get as smart as the Google developers<g>.  Hence
my quest for shortcuts, and, above all, for a basic structure of
"what works"(TM)

Thanks for the various posts, all!

Alan

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