By Agriya FLV Player

Things happen faster than we want them to. Nothing waits for us. Then there are Videos ; where we miss nothing. Apart from being one discovery that has allowed mankind to learn a lot and not miss anything, videos also happen to be a brilliant source of income.

If you’re the owner of a website, you’ll know exactly how important video can be. They appeal to audio and visual senses and give your website an added dimension. What you have to make sure, of course, is that your videos are good, they make sense to all your potential viewers, and that they deliver a clear message. To promote your products or your services on your website, videos are a great help.

When we want to watch some video, there’s a tendency to log onto sites like youtube to get what we need. When there’s a video on any site they get onto, a lot of people are going to watch it. If it is to do with your commodity and talks of it in an appealing manner, nothing like it; because people are getting busier and busier. A video can sum up everything on your site and everything it’s about, making it a lot easier for your viewers. Your main aim is to get people to your website, and once you’ve got them, to make sure you have their attention. Videos are a foolproof attraction.

You can be assured of an increased number of viewers if your website has attractive videos. They catch attention and increase curiosity. It’s very difficult to ignore a video that’s staring out at you, as compared to text all over the page.

Wouldn’t it be just great if you could have your own little player on your website, with youtube like features, customize it to look like you want it to, upload the video you want and make sure everyone who views it is impressed? So go get one!

Next comes the problem of building one such FLV player , to fit all your requirements. Count on the geniuses who have readymade software for you. All you have to do buy one of those, install them, and make a lot more money. Most of these readily available scripts are easy to install, reliable and customizable.

By Bob Dean Stanford

Do you want to increase your website sales, web-traffic, or start your own online TV talk show?  Would you like to broadcast your newsletter articles or videos over the Internet to others? Has this seemed impractical because video loads too slow, takes to much web space or just seems to hard to understand. We’ll welcome to the NEW world of instant loading, user friendly web video.

You may have noticed that a large number of websites are now featuring videos, everything from music videos, to online training. News is a popular use for presenting website video. You’ve probably heard a lot about RSS (Really Simple Syndication), a format designed for sharing web content like news headlines. RSS will be covered in a future article.

Did you know?

That there are so many new advancements in online video and audio in the last year, almost anyone can have their own online radio or TV talk show, radio or television station without high fees, advanced technical knowledge, and no FCC (Federal Communications Commission) intervention or regulation. Just build a website, install your audio and/or video files, advertise, and you’re in business.  You can even broadcast your audio and video files through RSS feeds (we’ll explain in a moment) to websites worldwide and Joint Venture (JV) with other website owners to include your video on their websites.

Why would you want to put video and audio on your website?

There are many reasons. We are now in the 21st Century and 2006 is said to be the year of online video.  Video is a premier sales tool. You’ve heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. How many words is a video with audio worth?  A LOT!  More than ever, people today are in a hurry and easily distracted, and even sensitively attuned to watching television many hours a day. TV is losing some of its ground to web-surfing.

Give the people what they want, video. Entertain, inform and educate them the way they are already trained for.  Now it’s easier than ever to do this. Here, we are focusing on adding video / audio to your website for various purposes such as, marketing, training, V-Blogging, video sharing and etc.  New technology has made it easy to add fast loading (called Streaming) video content to your website.

Until recently, between slow dial-up Internet connections and older technology, adding video wasn’t practical for general website usage. But since over 60% of individuals online now have broadband access, and the new streaming technology, audio and video files can now be viewed online with little or no buffering.  Buffering means to make the video viewable to your computer (the simple explanation).  Therefore, video is now a feature that can be efficiently used online. There are still size and quality limitations to consider, but the industry is making progress in this arena almost daily.

The other problem hindering website video use was its complicated installation process.  It’s been very difficult for the average individual to add video files to their websites.  Windows Player simplified this process but still had limitations. It played a few formats, but not the streaming .swf (Flash) files and you had to know how to install their player on your website to play the video. You needed to know html webpage code or have a program like Microsoft’s FrontPage to install the player and video on a webpage.

Now there are a few new solutions that make it easy for the average person to install video on a website without needing too much computer or webpage knowledge. If a person knows how to cut and paste a simple code into a webpage, they can ad existing video files to their site.  The tutorials even teach how to do this for the absolute beginner.

The latest software is an integration of several individual modules assembled as one user friendly software package that permits anyone to convert most of the existing video formats into fast loading, high quality, and streaming website videos.  This software even enables you to customize your video player, video size, and quality. There is no player or software for your website visitor to download since the player is built into your webpage and loads almost instantly.

There are many software programs available that claim it’s easy to install video on your website. Most don’t work as promised. One good suite is Camtasia, but it is complex to use and cost several hundred dollars.  A good user friendly, beginners’ level, feature-rich software should cost less than $100.

Video Content

Making video for a website is very easy today.  A mass amount of people now have low cost digital video cameras.  Many have video still cameras.  New software makes it easy for non-technical individuals to create automatic training videos and presentation from still pictures. We’ll cover this feature in the next article in this web-video series.

Digital video and still cameras easily connect to your computer to upload the pictures from your camera to your computer in a digital format. One simple conversion to the new streaming format, making a video or audio player, and pasting the new code onto your webpage and you’re in business.

Windows XP even includes “Windows Movie Maker” for editing your videos in your computer. This is beginner level software but makes high quality edits.  Your video cam can give you the ability to immediately create training videos, have your own TV talk show and etc.  You simply record your video on your computer, edit it if necessary, and save it in the new streaming video format. Do a series of these and you have prerecorded videos viewable by anyone with Internet access.  If you would like additional information on this subject, visit my website or email me as referenced in my signature line below.

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By Bryan Nilon

Flash video is now the most popular video format on the Internet. Many websites, such as Youtube, Myspace, Yahoo! Video and Google video, are using this video format to play their videos. This guide is to give you the instructions on how to convert video to SWF files and Flash video (FLV) using Wondershare Video to Flash Encoder.

Step1   Load  Video file

Click the Browse button to locate the file you want to convert from your hard disc and add it to the program. Wondershare Video to Flash encoder supports various video formats including AVI, MPG, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MOV, ASF, and FLV (You can convert FLV to a new FLV file or an SWF file).

Step 2  Edit

Click the Edit tab to set movie effects and crop video.

1 .Movie settings: If you want to change the default video settings, you can drag each adjustment bar to adjust the video brightness, contrast, saturation, audio volume, and select a video effect.

2 .Crop Video: If your movie has black edges around the video, you can cut the black edges off using the video cropping function. There are two methods for your choice: Drag the yellow frame on the preview window. Or set the crop values in the video cropping pane.

Step 3 Encoder

In the Encoder window, you can set the video and audio encoding settings including video frame rate, video bit rate, video codec, key frame, aspect ration, resolution and audio sample rate.

Here are the definitions of some of these terms:

Bitrate is the number  of bits used per unit of time to represent a continuous medium such as audio or  video after data compression,

Frame rate is the measurement of how quickly an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames. Frame rate is most often expressed in FPS (Frame per Second). Ordinary people can hardly distinguish the video effect if it is higher than 12 fps or 15 fps. The reaction time of human-eyes is about 0.1s, it means that you can see only ten frames in one second.

Key Frame is the drawings which are essential to define starting and ending points of any smooth transition. The higher the value is, the larger the final file size will be and the better quality the final file will have.

Step 4 Template

Choose a template from the available two types of templates: Player template and General template. Each type has templates of different styles. A player template has control buttons and general templates are for special occasions with selectable control bars.  You can even put hyperlinks on the flash player so that people could be guided to the url you pre-set.

If you choose the general templates, apart from adding background music, selecting a playback mode and choosing a control bar, Video to Flash Encoder also lets you edit set “Opening Movie” and “Ending Movie”. “Opening Movie” includes movie Title, Director and creation Motive. Ending movie lets you write the cast view of your video file.

Step 5 Publish

After all the above four steps, you can click the Publish tab, choose a publish format, and click the “Start Encode” to start conversion.

With Wondershare Video to Flash Encoder, video clips and video presentations can be easily converted to SWF files with smaller file sizes to share with your friends and family or converted to FLV files to for distribution on the internet.

You can download Wondershare Video to Flash Encoder Here: http://www.flash-on-tv.com/video-to-flash.html

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Add Video To Your Web Site – What’s The Best Format To Use To Add Video To Your Web Site?
By Lisa Taliga

It can be quite bewildering when you want to add video to your web site. What’s the best format to use, to make sure that everyone can view it? You need to make sure that your video is compressed so that it doesn’t take all day to download!

The current best format for online video clips is Flash (flv) as long as you don’t want people to download your video, just view it online.

Here’s why Flash is the best format to add video to your web site:

# Flash is very accessible. Mac, PC and Linux users can all view Flash. Windows media such as wmv won’t play on a Mac.

# Users don’t have to go hunting around and downloading software in order to view Flash videos. The Flash Player is the industry standard for video players and hence is already installed on many computers. It just makes sense to use the format that’s easy to view without people having to download anything extra.

# People don’t have to wait until your video has completely downloaded before seeing it. Flash downloads bit by bit, meaning that it can start playing as it’s downloading. That will keep people on your site, rather than getting bored and clicking away.

# Security – people can’t download or edit your Flash video so you can be assured that your videos are safe.

I guess the next question is, how do you quickly and easily convert your online videos to Flash and get them online? I’ve seen video services that charge a hefty monthly fee to do just that, but unfortunately that’s beyond my budget.

Luckily I found an inexpensive software tool that will add video to your web site. It not only converts many different video formats to Flash in minutes, but creates the actual web page that plays the video. You can get your video up and running on the internet today, with the minimum amount of effort.

Lisa Taliga has been working from home online since 2002. She loves using video
on her blog and websites, after eventually learning [http://www.seamlessvideo.com/index.html?utm_source=ezinearticles&utm_medium=article&utm_content=addvideowebsite&utm_campaign=videowebwizard]how
to add video to her web site. There’s a quick and easy solution for you at http://www.seamlessvideo.com

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