The way I usually do it is to store videos in the media library, then use a macro to allow the author to insert them on a page from within the wysiwyg.  Using flowplayer (http://flowplayer.org/) this is made pretty easy and the result looks good.

Heres some xslt that will allow the user to pick (one) video from the media library and write it out using flowplayer (*the flowplayer and jquery js would need to be included in your template)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet 
   version="1.0" 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
 xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
   exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">


<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:variable name="videoHeight" select="/macro/videoHeight" />
<xsl:variable name="videoWidth" select="/macro/videoWidth" />

<!--
<xsl:variable name="videoName" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(/macro/videoName, 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']" />
-->
<xsl:template match="/">
<a  href="{/macro/videoName/node/data [@alias='umbracoFile']}"
    style="display:block;width:{$videoWidth}px;height:{$videoHeight}px;"  
    id="player"> 
</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
flowplayer("player", "/scripts/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf",  { 
    clip: { 
        autoPlay: false,  
        autoBuffering: true  
    } 
});
//]]>
</script>


</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

This goes in to a macro with three params

videoHeight
videoWidth (these allow the user to adjust for the video)
videoName - (using mediacurrent)

If you wanted instead to build up pages with many movies, you could simply set a sensible default for width and height and use a multiple media picker on a page to build up a gallery.

Dan

If you are using multiple videos on one page then you will have to be careful in regards to the id="player" as if you have the id referenced more that once then obviously it will fail the XHTML validator and flowplayer will go into one and not work correctly.

You would have to use classes and create dynamic id's so the correct video is played.

Tom

Thanks for the detailed answer, however i have forgot to mention that i am using the video embed package. Sorry to waste your time. I must admit i'm very tempted to give this a try!

thanks

Alec

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