How to post video to website or blog?

Nowadays, there are several ways for you to post videos to website. To sum up, it could be divided into two kinds: one is to post videos to website by third-party desktop software, such as Higosoft Web Player, Video Lightbox, the other is post videos to website through online video sharing website, such as YouTube, Metacafe, Dailymotion.

As for these two methods, the first one is a little complex compared to the second method, but it could give users more customization for their online videos, those third party video publishing tool, such as Higosoft Web Player could provides users with abundant amazing and professional web player template, and able to add ads over the published videos to generate money. But the other methods of posting videos to website via video sharing website like YouTube is easy to use and the videos could be easily posted to personal website and blog.

Method 1: Use desktop software to embed videos to website.

Here I will take Higosoft Web Player as an example to show you how to insert videos to website.

Screenshot of Higosoft Web Player

main interface 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.

After you completing the above-mentioned process, the videos could be presented well on your website, but when you want to embed the videos to your blogs on third-party blog service provider, such as Livejournal, wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, blog.com, you should make a little change on the above embed code, for example, if the dwplayer.swf is stored at "/flash/dwplayer.swf", you should change the dwplayer.swf file path in the html embed code to "http://www.yourdomain.com/flash/dwplayer.swf", To be noteworthy, there are two parts about dwplayer.swf in the embed code, you could alter them both. To change the dwplayer.swf file path in the html code is in order to find the dwplayer.swf file stored in your personal website host, thus your personal blog on blog service provider could rightly locate the dwplayer.swf file.

Method 2: Use online video sharing service to add videos to website.

Here below I will take YouTube as an example:

Create an account on YouTube, upload your videos to Youtube network. Once you uploaded videos to YouTube, you will be taken to the video preview window, in the window, you could see an "Embed" box.

To embed a video, just copy the code from the "Embed" box—you can find it in the "About This Video" box when you're watching the video. Once you've copied the code, just paste it into your website or blog to embed it.

embed youtube video to website

Also, please note that if you don't want one of your videos to be embedded on other websites, you can disable that feature by following the steps below:

1. Within your account, click the "My Uploaded Videos" link (http://youtube.com/my_videos).

2. Click the "Edit Video Info" button to the right of the video in question.

3. Under "Sharing Options," click the button next to "No, external sites may NOT embed and play this video."