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Caroline Portugal
4,686 PointsVideo—embedding or uploading?
I produced a 5 minute video that I'd like to add to my website. I have finished the 'HTML Video and Audio' course, but am now wondering if a video that long should be embedded (Vimeo) instead of uploaded directly.
It'd be great to have more control of the skin and video overall (uploading it directly), but with this file size that could be almost impossible.
Thoughts are welcome. Thank you.
2 Answers
Jeremy Woodbridge
25,278 PointsJason is right, however there can be some benefits to uploading to sites like Vimeo as the video will be exposed to the community on Vimeo which could potentially lead viewers to your page.
Vimeo has a great API for embedding their videos. So I would say their really isn't a wrong way of posting your video, keep in mind the benefits each option has over the other
jason chan
31,009 PointsYou can host the video on your on webhost. Nick has a tutorial on styling html5 video players here.
Use handbrake to convert the video into a different video and audio codec. Pick one of the compressed ones.
Goodluck. .mov .wmv are pretty small. but mp4 with h.245 codec is very good on size.
Caroline Portugal
4,686 PointsHey Jason, thanks so much for taking the time to answer and for sending along the link.
Caroline Portugal
4,686 PointsCaroline Portugal
4,686 PointsJeremy, thanks for the quick reply. As I imagined, using Vimeo is just going to be overall easier and better. I was trying to avoid the fee for the Plus membership, but it might be worth it.
Thanks again!