Embedded flash video
In these days of YouTube and Google Video, it’s nice to be able to put up a short home video online without having to use these services. For example on a blog site, which may be still largely accessible to the outside world but at least isn’t on one of these mass video sharing websites. Unless of course that’s what you want to do…
Anyway, the file format these services use is called Flash Video with the file extension flv. A free encoder is available that will transcode AVIs, WMVs, MPEGs and whatnot into the FLV format. Then just upload the FLV to your site, and use the free Flash Video Player to embed your video. You can view an example of these on the 180 videos site. The process is pretty painless if you know basic HTML.