Chapter 4. Delivery and Deployment Primer
Creating video files with a video-compression tool is only one step in the process of taking your video content to the Web. To enable the best user experience for visitors watching your videos, you need to know how to distribute your video files on Web servers, streaming servers, or possibly even a content distribution network (CDN) such as Akamai, Limelight Networks, and others. In this chapter, you’ll learn the differences between distribution file formats and protocols for Flash-based video, along with their advantages and disadvantages.
File Formats: SWF, FLV, H.264, and HTML
For video to play properly on a Web site, you need at least one Flash movie, or SWF file, that contains the scripting code to ...
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