With today's high bandwidths, putting video on your website is no longer a high-cost proposition. The way to insert video on a web page is very simple, you add these tags*:

<EMBED SRC="movie.mpg" width="320" height="240"
autoplay="true">

This will work with all kinds of formats including Quicktime (.mov) and Windows movies (.wmv). There is one big problem; the whole movie must download before playback begins. For long movies this can be a long wait. Streaming allows a movie (or audio file) to begin playing before the download is finished. To get true streaming, you need special streaming servers and this is expensive. There is another option called pseudo streaming that can be done using Flash. The buffering is handled by Flash using ordinary hosting.

Wait there are other issues to consider... What if you have a lot of videos? What if you want to automatically play them in sequence? What if you don't like the look of the Windows player?

The solution a video gallery with background skins. We can custom design a video gallery that is:

• Highly configurable to match your site and provide a unique look.
• Start playing in sequence, randomly or any order you choose.
• Mix in other media like pictures, text or MP3.

Thanks to The HuangJie for providing the videos. You can see more of HuangJie at her site at http://www.huangjie.name You'll also find a totally different configuration of the videos on her site.

All videos must be in a special Flash Video format called FLV. You can convert videos to FLV using Adobe After Effects, Quicktime Player Professional and a number of other video tools on the market. If you don't have any of these tools, we can convert your video to Flash FLV format and we can even do the following video editing:

• resize the movie dimensions
• scene cutting and splicing
• transition effects between scenes
• text overlays
• add additional audio sound tracks (like background music, sound effects, etc)

*Technically, you should provide plugin information with a surrounding object tag:

<object id="quicktimeplayer" width="190" height="240" classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="src" value="moviefile.mov">
<param name="controller" value="true">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<embed src="Sample.mov" width="240" height="196"
autoplay="false" controller="true"
pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</embed>
</object>:

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