playing any video on a website (flash, divx, avi/wmv (m2ts/mts, mkv?))

Question

How can I embed any type of video onto a webpage, youtube seems to be able to upload any type of video and I'd like to know if I can do that too without huge amounts of resources and money (the website would be very small with definitely under 100 member, most likely under 50)

Is there a player that plays all formats, or would I have to use different players?

Also on HD videos I'd like to have a SD option.

Solution 1

Decided to use Divx webplayer, as it does avi, divx, and mkv (mts can convert to mkv easily)

Solution 2

• shwup.com can host collaborative video albums to share amongst friends / family / classrooms only. unlimited uploads. since you want private sharing.

• another cool way is to use one of the video APIs to upload/encode to the cloud, e.g.: YouTube Data API, Vimeo API, Hey!Watch, Orb, Phanfare

• For players: JW Player is pretty nice.

• Flowplayer is great as well.

• if you have ffmpeg on your host, that can easily handle conversion between most popular formats

• if you're doing tons of encoding and self-hosting the files, another option is uEncode.com - an on-demand web service to convert between formats

• also you could just upload the files to a regular account on one of the sharing sites like youtube, veoh, and embed them in your site. let them provide the bandwidth :)

Solution 3

There is no player that plays all formats. You would either have to restrict the containers and codecs usable, or farm off reencoding to another process.

Solution 4

I use JW Player: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player

Solution 5

YouTube uses ffmpeg (free and open-source) to convert uploaded video to a Flash format for embedding. You can do the same, if you like.

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