How can I embed streaming video on HTML page?

[westereleven]

How can I embed streaming video on HTML page? Will it use lots of bandwidth?

[KDLA]

If it's truly streaming, it won't use lots of bandwidth because the load is dispersed.

Tutorial: http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Embed-Video/3490

[Eye for Video]

Uuummm.. not exactly sure what is meant by the load being dispersed..??? A streaming video encoded at 400kbps and a progressively downloaded video rendered at 400kbps require exactly the same bandwidth. And that is true whether you have 1 viewer or 1 million.
So in the spirit of giving back to this Forum for all that I’ve learned here, let me elaborate.
I guess you could say that streaming video does come out in little bits… but your bandwidth will be the accumulated total of the bits of data (or bytes) sent out from your server. The exact same is true of a server which progressively downloads your video.
The major difference will be the cost between bandwidth used on a true streaming host verses a standard (progressive download) host. True streaming will be 10 to 20 or more times the cost of standard downloading.
As an example, lets say that your video is 50 MB. And in one month you have 2000 viewers… that should work out to about 100GB per month… progressive download or streaming… size is the same.
But let’s look at the cost. Using my favorite streaming host, UpStreamNetworks:
http://www.upstreamnetworks.com/home.php?page=windows-live-streaming
….100 GB per month is in the three digit price range.
Now let’s compare to using progressive downloading using a company like Lunar Pages.
http://www.lunarpages.com/
Dang! They are advertising Unlimited Space and Unlimited Bandwidth for less! And yes, I can vouch for them… use them all the time.
As for the “embed” part, since <embed> doesn’t validate, some of the other posters on the Forum here will eat you alive if you try to use it. My recommendation is to use swfobject or nested <object> instead…. but that’s just me.
Anyway, hope some of this has been helpful.
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com

[KDLA]

Yes, you are right. That's what I meant, in a vague blonde way. ;)
BTW -- I removed prices, since price discussions are banned here.

[Kelon]

Hi - just thought I'd leave a note to say these resources are good, useful. Appreciated by another reader.

I'm very much interested in this area, especially with how a browser copes... specifically how the streaming/downloading affects other activities like preloading of images for a JavaScript feature on the same web page. I'm very untutored on this whole subject. I've observed a site give priority to a swf movie downloading activity though the script managing pre-loading of other static images is invoked before the downloading script. There may be another thread in here dealing with this, I'm new to the forum and so will go find it.... sorry if my reply is off topic/in the tutorials/confused

[Eye for Video]

Well I hadn't thought about wmode from this respective before but doing so might interest you. Often when Flash is displayed in a Web browser it's given special priority and taken out of the normal flow, depending on it's wmode. This is from a source I quoted in an earlier post.... seems like the link is broke now but here's the gist of it:
By default, the Flash Player gets its own hWnd in Windows. This means that the Flash movie actually exists in a display instance within Windows that lives above the core browser display window. So though it appears to be in the browser window, technically, it isn't. It is most efficient for Flash to draw this way and this is the fastest, most efficient rendering mode. However, it is drawing independently of the browser's HTML rendering surface. This is why this default mode (which is equivalent to wmode="window") doesn't allow proper compositing with DHTML layers. This is why your JavaScripted drop-down menus will drop behind your Flash movie.
While this has to do with Flash showing up on top of other items on an html page, it may also explain the loading priority situation you describe.
For more info Google:
Window Mode (wmode) - What's It For?
Here is the other post:
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=201724&highlight=flash+menu
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com

[tedscoffee]

To embed streaming video on HTML page you need to firstly convert your video (AVI, WMV, MPG) into Flash movie format (.FLV) first, and then play it on your HTML page using a flash video player. Check out this video player software (http://video.a4desk.com) for MS-Windows which does both -- it imports your movie file, convert into FLV format, and then you can choose a flash video player skin, it will then either generate a HTML page with the video player embed inside it, or generate a section of HTML code for you to copy and paste into your HTML page. If you don't have much experience with Adobe Flash, then this is a simple and quick solution.

[marybrown31]

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[skilled1]

http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/

I have used this on quite a few websites. All you need is the code provided on the website, + the video you converted into .flv and you are off and running. You can also use your own custom preview.

http://www.longtailvideo.com/addons/plugins

they also have plugins allowing you to watch stats in google analytics and many others