What's the Best Way to Host and Embed Videos?

Discussion in 'Graphics & Multimedia' started by Masterful, Nov 13, 2012.

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    Recently, I have constructed a website and produced nine videos, which I want to put on the website. I am then going to send a lot of traffic to the website and hopefully get a lot of video views.

    The file type of the videos is WMV. They are of 720p HD quality, and their total file size is just under 1.5 GB. I want the videos to be compatible with as many visitors as possible, and I don't want them to stop to buffer every few seconds. I also don't want to pay heaps of cash for video hosting.

    Keeping the above in mind, what are my options? What exactly must I do?

    From what I understand, my best option is to host the videos on Amazon S3 and embed them on my website after installing a player of some sort on my server. Is that correct?

    Shall I convert the videos into Flash files? Wouldn't it be very expensive to host nine HD videos on Amazon S3?

    Can't I just throw the videos on YouTube and embed them on my Web pages? Why would doing so be a bad idea?

    Any help in this matter will be much appreciated.
     
    Masterful, Nov 13, 2012 IP