showing video in Coppermine Gallery

[idoyy]

Hi,

I'd like to show video movies, in addition to images, in my gallery. I made some reading and I have a several questions:

1. From my reading, I understand that flash may be the best format because its plugin is very popular, so that my users probably won't have to install anything. Is that true?
2. How can I convert my files (mov and mpeg formats) to flash? What file type exactly should I convert them to?
3. Will the converted file be smaller than the original one?

Thanks in advance,
Ido

[Sami]

why don't you use orginal file format!?
Users can't see flash file directly from gallery they should download it and see it localy

[idoyy]

1. When I use the original file, then the movie is displayed only after it's fully downloaded. I understand that flash files are displayed while they're progressively downloaded, which gives the users a better experience. Isn't that the case?
2. I hope the flash version will be smaller in size.
3. I understand I can show flash files in the gallery itself. There's even a sample in the demo. Am I missing anything?

[Sami]

I understand I can show flash files in the gallery itself. There's even a sample in the demo. Am I missing anything?

No you don't I've missed that
You're right

Then you should use Macromedia Flash video encoder to create smaller size flash video