How do i publish a video file in .avi or .mov format to my web site?

Answer by: Stuart Pierce, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support.

You can use the HTML embed element to publish files to your web site. The first thing to do will be to upload your video file to your FTP space on the shared hosting server. Usually video files size is large, that’s why we recommend that you use a local FTP client. Upload to the /html folder for the Unix-based plans and in the /WWWROOT folder for the Windows-based plans.

Then, you will need to insert into the appropriate place of your HTML page the following code:    

<EMBED src="video.avi" WIDTH=xxx HEIGHT=xxx AUTOSTART=TRUE>
</EMBED>

Please replace “video.avi” with the actual name of the file you have uploaded and “xxx” with the desired size of the screen. Please have in mind that in the example above the video file and the HTML page are located in the same directory. Otherwise, you will have to specify the relative path to your video file, like this: src="subdirectory/video.avi".

Related link:

• How do I upload using FTP software?