How to embed a Video into your Blog

Videos are getting more and more popular and is now huge online and is one of the hottest things on the internet!
After Youtube’s exponential growth about everyone is doing videos or having videos on their sites.

It’s easy to make a video and have an online video on your website or upload a video to some of the many video sharing sites which is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to get free traffic to your site.
If you’re are selling something on your website, videos on your site increases conversion rates and get you more sales.

Have You ever been thinking of having a video on your blog or website? … but not quite sure how to do it?

You can make a video with a videocamera or make a video out of a powerpoint slideshow with photos, background, text, special effects then record the slideshow with a screenrecorder and end up with a video which can be edited and you can add voice and sound effects as the final steps.

If you need to convert your videoformat e.g. from AVI to FLV or Mp4 or merge several videos

into one, this little video joiner can do the job:
Free AVI/MPEG/WMA/MP4/FLV Video Joiner which can be downloaded from freeaudiovideosoft.com
However it cannot edit your video or add sound with this program.

Embedding a YouTube video
It’s easy to embed a youtube video on your site, just copy the “embed code” which can be found just beneath the video on youtube.com then paste the code into your sites html code. If you have a blog, paste the code into your post while in html mode and you have the youtube video on your site.

Embedding other videos on your site
You can easily embed other videos than Youtube videos on your blog or site. There are different ways to embed videos.. more or less complicated and with or without the use of javascript.

… but here’s a really easy and simple way to embed a video on your site. This method can handle Videos in the following formats: .flv, mp4, swf and downloaded youtube videos. FLV flash videos (file extension .flv) is the most common video file type these days and if you’ve downloaded a youtube video it is usually a flv video but it could be mp4 format as well.




Here’e a quick guide how to embed a FLV, MP4 or swf Video on your site.

1)
Get “JW Player for Flash”
it’s free for non-commercial use. Download it free here: JW player for Flash

Basically It’s a small player (a quite small file 80 kb called player.swf) which you upload to your host and embed on your blog or website.
It plays your video on the website.
Once you downloaded the player.swf file, Upload it to your host.

2)
Say your domain is: http://www.mydomain.com and your video is called: myvideo.flv

 Upload your video to your host. Your video URL is now: http://www.mydomain.com/myvideo.flv
The JW player: player.swf (which you downloaded):
After uploading to your host the The jw player URL is: http://www.mydomain.com/player.swf

3)
Copy and paste the html code below into your blog or website. If you have a blog: open a post and in the html mode paste the code and “update” the post. That’s it, you have embedded your video in the post.

<embed src="http://www.mydomain.com/player.swf" width="400" height="300" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="file=http://www.mydomain.com/myvideo.flv&autostart=false">


Settings in the code above:
The file “player.swf” should not be changed. Just upload the file.
Your video name: “myvideo.flv” just change the name to Your video and with the correct extension (.flv, .mp4 or .swf) and change the URLs to Your domain.
Set the Video width and height as you like.
autoplay Feature:
a) If you want the video to autoplay, the last part of the code should read: autostart=true”>
b) If you dont want autoplay (click on an arrow in the video to start playing) the code should read: autostart=false”>


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