Discover Your Coaching Niche » video http://www.arhost.co.uk/blog Helping you find your niche Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:01:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Video Player FAQs and Online Video http://www.arhost.co.uk/blog/video-player-faqs-and-online-video/ http://www.arhost.co.uk/blog/video-player-faqs-and-online-video/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:01:27 +0000 Alun Richards http://www.arhost.co.uk/blog/video-player-faqs-and-online-video/ I’ve had several questions recently about getting videos online on your wbsite, and for free video player recommendations.
 
Video Player Recommendations
 
Some video playes are built into decent WordPress themes – such as OptimizePress and MarketerCMS.  I use both, and with them I can create a video squeeze page (optin page, landing page, name capture page) in about 30 seconds.  If you have WordPress already, they are themes you can buy from about $99.
 
So then you wouldn’t have to get an additional player.
 
No Player!
 
Also – and many people don’t realise this – you can actually post videos straight from Amazon S3 to your site – no player required!  Your client’s internet browser will recognise it’s a video and play it just fine.
 
Just post the S3 url of your video (mp4, mov, wmv or whatever) on your site.
 
Why Have a Video Player, Then?
 
So given this, why do you need a video player?
 
For the added features and convenience.
 
Easy Video Player, for example, allows different sized players, different style players, auto-play, redirect to a url after completion, display of (say) a payment button part way through the video, stats on the number of plays etc.
 
Other paid players that work with Amazon S3 are EZS3 and FlowPlayer.
 
FlowPlayer has a free version (it has ads), but you can use it even on commercial websites: http://flowplayer.org/download/index.html
 
Video Rendering
 
Your problem (if you still have it) may not be related to the player you’re using, it may be due to the rendering (or lack of).
 
If your video plays OK from your hard drive but doesn’t from Amazon S3, it’s a good bet it isn’t rendered.
 
To play on a website it needs to be sufficiently compact.  Rendering reduces the size of the video so that online streaming is possible.
 
For more information on video, check out my teleseminar replay:

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