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

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Most streaming video (e.g. Youtube) are actually flash video, you would need to convert your avi, mpeg files into FLV file format first, then use a flash player to play it online. You can try this Flash video player software (http://video.a4desk.com) which automatically converts your video and allow you to choose a few video player designs. However, you need to keep in mind video uses a lot more bandwidth than images, so you need to ensure your hosting plan supports that and if you need to change your hosting plan to support that.

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yes... upload it first then you can just cut and paste the url to your page.

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You can use FLV as video format, and make a flash video player to play the FLV file, the flash video player is a SWF file that can be embedded into web page with HTML embed tag. (FLash OBJECT and EMBED tag)

<object classid="clasid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"
width="432" height="330" id="myMovieName" >
<param name="movie" value="myMovieName.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
<embed src="myMovieName.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="432" height="330" name="myMovieName" align="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>

Making flash video player in Aodbe Flash CS3 will be technical, you can use this web player Pro that will generate a custom flash video player for website and also provide a free video to flv converter.

For the bandwidth, it depends. If your streaming video will be visited by a lot of people, this will take much bandwidth.

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