Is there any reasonably easy way to provide and stream .avi and .wmv videos on web browser?

Question

Is there any reasonably easy way to provide .avi and .wmv videos on webpages and later stream the videos directly off the web browser?

I realize there might have been similar questions asked around google in the past, I wanted to see if there are any update on this topic from experts out there.

Thanks,

Hank

Answer 1

The AVI format will cause you problems if you want the easiest method - which is to simply use the video element of HTML5.

You could encode the AVIs to a web format - there are loads of free services that will do it.

<video>
  <source src="movie.mp4" />
  <source src="movie.webm" />
</video>