If you have a video that you want to host yourself and you don’t want to use sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, etc. then follow this tutorial.

Ok the scenario is that you have a movie file let’s say with a mov extension (.mov) and you’re using a Mac computer and you have a wordpress blog. You don’t want to upload the file to YouTube and you would rather host it yourself.

First is you need a file converter to convert the mov file to flv. Download ffmpegX from http://homepage.mac.com/major4/

Install ffmpegX. Now that you have the converter, convert the mov file and the output should be flv.

Upload the flv file to your server and take note of its URL.

Now on to WordPress, when you go on writing a post, choose the html tab, and place this code to where you want your video to appear

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="360" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="flashvars" value="file=http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/Lion-hug-Rescuer.flv" /><param name="src" value="http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/mediaplayer.swf" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="360" src="http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/mediaplayer.swf" flashvars="file=http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/Lion-hug-Rescuer.flv"></embed></object>

Now replace the URL with the flv (http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/Lion-hug-Rescuer.flv) in that code with the URL of your uploaded flv. There will be two instances of that and make sure that it’s correct. Publish and see your video in action.