Please help

I have been putting together a website for 43 friends and family and I that are holidaying together. This is my first go !!
I want to show three videos .wmv 1 @ 5.25mb 2nd 62mb and the 3rd @ 127mb I have looked at streeming direct from streeming server at my host but cannot justify the cost. As the traffic will be light will you please guide me on streeming using HTTP and would it work with these size files.
Thanks

You know, the easiest and without worry of bandwidth issues, is to upload your video's to www.youtube.com as they allow hotlinking to the videos and even provide the embed code for you to display that video on your own site!

If you want an example, look here: http://www.thesoulgirl.com/blog199g/...hp?entryid=166

Oh... and I believe the maximum size is 100 mb but less than 10 minutes in length Does that help or would you still like instructions on hosting them yourself?

Originally Posted by HappyBeaver

Oh... and I believe the maximum size is 100 mb but less than 10 minutes in length Does that help or would you still like instructions on hosting them yourself?

Many thanks for the info would you also give me instructions on hosting them, as I may use both methods

Many thanks

Nick

Well, to host the videos yourself you'll need to upload them to your webspace obviously, then use code to call that file on your webpage.

Code:

<OBJECT ID="MMPlayer1" WIDTH=278 HEIGHT=240 classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject"><PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="_RefFiles/J11 BBC.wmv">            <PARAM NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="1"><PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="1">            <PARAM NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="DefaultFrame" VALUE="Slide"><PARAM NAME="Autostart" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="Loop" VALUE="FALSE"><Embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/download/default.asp" src="http://www.yoursite.com/yourvideo.wmv" Name=MMPlayer1 Autostart=0 ShowControls=1 ShowDisplay=0 ShowStatusBar=1 Loop=FALSE DefaultFrame="Slide" width=278 height=240></embed></OBJECT>

Just plonk the above code where you want your player to appear on your webpage. Be sure to edit the URL to the one that points to your video.