What video file formats are most suitable for upload to the Web?

Answer 1

Flash video formats(FLV/SWF) is the best choice to add video to a website, which lies in the following reasons:

1.Flash video is a container file format used to deliver video over the internet. Its best quality and smallest file size make it easily be uploaded to website. The good examples are YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo video, Hulu, Myspace, Facebook, etc.

2. Flash Player can work on Windows, Linux and Mac OS (including Tiger, Snow leaplord) and is supported by more browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc)than any other player. And you can customize your flash player with video to flash converter for mac. Your visitors don't need to download any player before watching your embedded videos.

3. Flash can automatically stream video. It takes up less spaces and bandwidth.

4. There are many wonderful flash creators to help you to make a amazing flash with customize flash player. One of them is Doremisoft video to flash converter for mac which can convert your any video format (mp4, 3gp, wmv, avi, mov, qt, mpg, mpeg, etc) to Flash FLV/SWF format and automatically embed them in an HTML web page, no need for any flash programming knowledge.

After create a Flash video in FLV/SWF format with video to flash converter for mac (See details: Convert Video to SWF/FLV/Animation on Mac OSX), how do you put it on your website correctly?

http://www.flashconverterformac.com/articles/how-to-convert-video-to-flv-swf-flash-animation-on-mac-osx/

The remaining work is as easy as a piece of cake. When you finished the conversion, you will find four files(.flv, .swf, .html, .jpg) in your output folder. Upload FLV and SWF files to your server host. Open .html file with Dashcode and copy codes(from "") to your website.

http://www.flashconverterformac.com/video-to-flash-converter-mac/

Answer 2

There is no single best format for web video; what matters most is what you are trying to achieve. Flash video is a good cross-platform option, but is beginning to die out with HTML 5 increasing in popularity. MP4 using an H. 264 codec is one of the more widely supported formats that offers less degradation of quality after compression.