Working on High Quality Flash Video

As you can see from my last two posts I am experimenting with using higher quality flash video on my site by hosting it myself. I'm still trying to get it to work properly but if you are looking to do the same thing on your site I will give you the 2 minute tutorial to get it done. (This is the site I found that pretty much details it all out for you)

1. To encode your video to flash from Windows Movie Maker, save it as a avi and then use the free Riva flash encoder. This tool has a really easy to use interface to convert your video file to a flash file. It also comes with a flash viewer so you can see what you have converted. The only downside is that it only supports certain video formats.



2. Now that you have a flash file, you need to put it up on your website. But for people to be able to view it, you need to have a flash player on your website. FlowPlayer is a free and open source flash player that you can put on your website. It has a lot of features like being able to add your own skin and looks great.




The only thing about using FlowPlayer is that it can be a challenge to figure out how to actually embed your flash files so they can be played on your site. I'm still working on this for my site and will let you know what I find out.