Put a Movie on your Website
If you have your own website, and want to put your own movies on it, one way is to use a third party free service, such as YouTube or Google Video.
But what if you don’t want to use a third party service like that with the accompanying advertising? Well tonight I learned how to make my own movie for my site…
It seems that the common recommendation nowadays is to use a flash video movie for your site instead of other formats.
There are free ways to do this, as opposed to buying commercial software for the task. The link above gives directions for Windows users. I have an iMac, so I used ffmpegX to encode a short QuickTime clip that I had into .FLV (Flash) format. Then I used the FlowPlayer player to play it on my website.
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Oh, if you want, Apple has instructions on their site how to set up a QuickTime video for your website. QuickTime 7: Preparing movies for Internet delivery. You do need to own QuickTime Pro, though.