How can I add a movie to website?

kslnor · December 3rd, 2005, 01:18 PM

I have no idea how to do this, but I would like to add a 2 minute movie to a website. I have a DVD that contains the .BUP, .VOB, and .IFO files. Unfortunately, I am not able to open and/or view any of these files, but I do know the movie exists. So, how do I go about adding this movie to a website? I would like the movie to be viewed within an existing page of the website - visable at the upper left corner. I am virtually clueless with this. Any good tutorials you can recommend? Thank you!

soulja · December 3rd, 2005, 01:31 PM

theres a script within dreamweaver where u can emble the video and it will automatically play in a player on ur site..

sr71000 · December 3rd, 2005, 01:34 PM

you have to convert it into some other format (such as mpeg or some other common format). That's up to your preferences. Then, you use the embed tags to add that video to your webpage.

kslnor · December 4th, 2005, 05:22 PM

Can I convert it to a .swf file and upload it, with embed tags in the sourcecode?

soulja · December 4th, 2005, 05:24 PM

yes it should be fine in .swf

kslnor · December 11th, 2005, 02:45 PM

I converted the .vob file to .mpg. I think the file sizes are too large, though. Just uploading the files to my host server will take a long time - don't want to exceed my limit. I think I can convert the .vob file to .swf simply by saving as .swf extension, but I cannot view the file. Any siggestions? Thank you

gunstar · December 18th, 2005, 06:45 PM

first off, use a program to convert the VOB files into something like AVI file which is a lot better to use and manage. AUTO GK is a brill program for that, it'll grab the VOB files and convert them into an AVI file for you with compression so it'll be a much smaller file size by about 80%. From there you can upload the video to your website.

Saving as a SWF doesn't do anything unless you actually use Flash.