Video on your Site

Showing Video on your Site

Video is an important part of websites today; you may ask why you would need video on a website. First, it makes your website more interactive and an easy way to engage with a visitor. Streaming video presents your website with a professional feel and builds trust in visitors because they become familiar with people they may wish to do business with.
The average time a visitor spends on your site is increased giving you more opportunities to present your products.

One of the most important aspects of video on your site is the ability to make complex ideas very simple and it also allows ease for teaching or tutorials of your product range. Online Video has a psychological effect that text just cannot generate. If you're selling products or services and you use both text and video, you're sure to make more revenue with your website.

Streaming Video
Streaming video is content sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer in real time, is usually sent from prerecorded video files. A visitor does'nt have to wait to download a file to play the video. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream of data and is played as it arrives. The user needs a player, which is a special program that uncompresses and sends video data to the display and audio data to speakers. A player can be either an integral part of a browser or downloaded from the software maker's Web site.
Examples: youtube.com and tube-tutor.com

Live Broadcast
In a live broadcast, the video signal is converted into a compressed digital signal and transmitted from a special Webserver (Red5 or Wowza) that is able to do multicast, sending the same file to multiple users at the same time.