Adding Video to a Website

There are important things to consider when you want to stream videos to your web site: “Before you add any video to your web page, it’s important to understand that videos can take up a lot of web page space (file size) and bandwidth. Every time someone clicks to view the video they will be taking up some of your allocated bandwidth.

Be sure to check with your web host if you’re not sure how much you are provided. If you’re paying a monthly fee for web hosting, you could exceed your limits and be charged an extra fee if enough people view your video file.

Uploading the Video

First you must upload/save your video to your web server. You may want to create a folder called “video” and save it there. So the path to your video will be something like http://yoursite.com/video/movie.avi.
Embedding the Video

One thing you should keep in mind is that every web browser treats videos differently. What may work in one browser, may not work in another. So you should use both old and new HTML embed tags. (<object> and <embed>).”

Read the full article from 2 Create a Website. See the examples and pay special attention to the tips.