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Higosoft Web Player is a great solution for embedding video onto website

Higosoft Web Player is developed by Higosoft Inc to help users to embed video onto website. The online videos could increase the interactivity and usability of website content, thus draw more traffic for your website.

Currently there are various methods of embedding video onto website, such as via YouTube, video to flash software, such as Doremisoft Video to Flash Converter. But as opposed to those methods, Higosoft Web Player provides you a easy and intuitive way to embed videos onto website, and with Higosoft Web Player, you could select professional and elegant web player templates for your video player, and customize web player template according to your need. Personalized templates and web player templates of different themes are a great advantage compared to other video publishing tool.

Screenshot of Higosoft Web Player

How to use Higosoft Web Player to embed video onto website

Step 1: Open Higosoft Web Player and add flv videos into the software. If the video is in other formats, please use video converter to convert it to flv video.

Step 2: Click "Advertisement" tab to add ads into videos (optional).

Step 3: Click "Template" tab to select appropriate web player template and customize web player template.

Step 4: Click "Publish" tab to publish videos onto local computer and then embed video onto personal website and blog.

Step 5: Upload the generated files and resources to web server, open up dwplayer.html in text editor and copy and paste a snippet of embedding code like  to your own webpage, and then modify dwplayer.swf file path in the copied html embedding code, there are two parts about dwplayer.swf file path that are needed to modified. After correctly setting the file path, you could preview the videos on the webpage.

How to embed videos to website through third-party video sharing website like YouTube, Metacafe etc.

Embedding a video into a web page used to be a real challenge in the early days of the web. You had different formats to choose from, other visitors might not have the proper software installed to see the video, and bandwidth was still limited, as many people were still on dialup. Fast forward to 2010. Most people now have broadband, and although there are still many video formats, the most commonly used method to embed video today is via the Flash player and an .flv file which is provided via an external host, such as YouTube.

Now, embedding a video onto a web page becomes as easy as cutting and pasting. When you visit a site that hosts videos, such as YouTube, you are presented with a video box on the page. You can watch the video directly on the page, or the Flash player allows you to view the video full screen, just by clicking a button on the player. How much does it cost you to add a video from YouTube to your site? Nada--nothing. They provide the service, and they also provide the bandwidth, so the video is hosted on their servers and uses their bandwidth! Hard to beat a deal like that!

How do you do it? When you locate a video you'd like to add to your page on YouTube, look below the video for an  link as shown below. When you click the Embed link, the HTML code used to embed that video is displayed directly below it. By clicking your mouse within the new embed code (in the form field), all the text in that field is highlighted. You then right mouse click in that field, and select Copy from your browser's drop down that will appear when you right click in the field.

Here's what the embed code for the video above looks like:

<object width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GwQMnpUsj8I&hl=en&fs=1">
</param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true">
</param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always">
</param><embed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/GwQMnpUsj8I&hl=en&fs=1
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344">
</embed></object>

Then, open the source code of your web page, and using a tool such as NotetabPro or Expression Web, paste it into your page (either right click again where you want it, and select Paste, or place the mouse cursor where you want it, and hit Control and V on your keyboard at the same time. The embed code will be thusly deposited into your web page. Save the page, upload it to your web server using an FTP client, and view it in your browser!

It works in Firefox, MSIE, Chrome, and just about any new browser out there. Most browsers come preinstalled with Flash, and if not, the visitor will usually be prompted by the browser to download the appropriate software. If you can see the video above, then you can see any video from YouTube. There are other video providers, and most use the same method of letting users embed video.

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