Nowadays, broadband connections are widespread amongst the internet. Finally, video can be effectively added to website.

Which brings us to the point of compression software. There are a couple of interesting packages

I don't like big screen sizes. There's nothing I can see at 720x540 that i cannot see at 360x270.

Bad source (camera shake, noise) gives bad compression. Try to compress from good source. With DV, i always rescale the source (720x540) to 320x240 to an uncompressed intermediate file. Due to the scaling, the dv noise has become sub-pixel noise and is way less visible.

Windows Media Player, Winamp and Quicktime will refuse to play them. For desktop viewing, you could use the excellent VLC Media Player. Just drop a FLV file on top of it and you're good to go.

The codecs and formats I discussed here are all based upon progressive downloading; a file is downloaded and played when enough data has been delivered. For enterprise video users (100's of video's, or videos from over 10 minutes) this is not efficient.

Note that there is an annoying bug in most older FLV compression software (notably FFMPEG, FLV Video Exporter 1.1, Sorenson Squeeze 3 and the free Riva encoder).

Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro is currently the most cost-effective tool to convert Flash video (FLV) files to common video and audio files. This program can perfectly convert all kinds of FLV files without the installation of any extra codecs, including On2 VP6 video FLV, H263 video FLV...