Playing local video files in HTML

A project has various local HTML &开发者_StackOverflow社区; video files for help pages. We need to be able to embed these videos in HTML pages - but because all are local files we have no server-side streaming.

Can I still just use SWFObject? Are there other well-known controls that will let us play .mp4, .swf/flv, .wmv files?

This solution is targeting HTML4 across Chrome, FF and IE (I don't know if IE6 is needed).

SWF can reproduce different video formats (FLV, F4V, H.264, although you need a component that handles the reproduction of the video. For simple reproduction, you don't need a streaming server.

There are different video players available, with open source, freeware or commercial license.

You can check, both Open source:

• FlowPlayer
• JW Flv player (HTML5 support)

The FLVPlayback component will play FLV video from the same web server the page is hosted on. You don't need a dedicated media server to do that, unless you need more advanced streaming and/or interactive features.