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How do I host and view a video on EditMe?

If you have a video file on your computer's hard drive that you want to display on your EditMe site, you can upload it as an attachment and display it.

First you must upload the video to your site as an attachment. Then you must create a plain text page (see PlainTextEditing) and insert an EMBED tag, like this:

<embed height="300" width="300" xsrc="/files/SomePage/attachedfile.avi" controller="true" autoplay="false">

"SomePage" here is the page name to which you have attached the video. You can use the EMBED tag with many different video formats, though support for various formats depends on the visitor's browser configuration and can vary.

You can then include that page into any page you want to show the video on. For help including pages see Using Includes

Recommended Alternative: Use Flash

The problem with uploading video files directly to EditMe (or any web site) is that you're relying on software the website visitor happens to have installed on their computer to view the video file. The browser they're using decides how to display a video file based on what software is installed on the computer, and there's no way for you to control that. There are lots of different video file formats and there is no format that will work on everybody's computer.

The recommended way to include video in your web site is to use Flash. Flash is by far the most widely supported way to view video on the web. All of the major online video sites (Google Video, YouTube, CNN, etc.) use Flash.

Unfortunately, converting videos into Flash is not trivial. The suggested method is to use one of the free video sharing sites like Google Video, YouTube or Vimeo. Many popular photo sharing sites (Flickr, Smugmug, Picasa) also provide video service. These sites provide storage, handle the conversion to Flash and give you a simple embed code you can paste into your EditMe site. By using that embed code, visitors will get a very consistent video experience on your site.

Here is another FAQ all about putting "embed code" into your EditMe site: How do I add embed code to a page?