There are several ways to incorporate streaming audio and video hosted at Video Desk into your web pages:
- Embed the media into your web page
- Add a button to your web page
- Create a playlist
- Send video email
You can add streaming media from Video Desk to pages that are hosted anywhere. Because all media files are stored and streamed from our servers, they add no load to the server that hosts the web page itself!
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Embed video on your website |
| When you embed media, the player becomes part of the page, blending in with your own web content. You can embed either audio or video files. Here are examples of embedded Flash Video (FLV) files. |
Flash Video |
Put Buttons on your webpages to play Media |
When the user clicks a media button, the streaming media player opens in its own window. You can choose either to have the video play in the web browser, or in the default media player on the viewer's system. If you choose to use the web browser, the code will open a special viewing window.
These buttons show you how it works:
 Opens in a web browser window
 Opens in the default media player
In addition to using the buttons supplied by Video Desk, you can turn any graphic that you choose into a button.
Click the Victrola for an example:
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Make Professional Playlists |
A playlist is just what it sounds like, a list of things to be played. You can easily create playlists in Video Desk, and create a single button that will play the entire list. This can be useful for anything from a movie that is stored in chapters, to letting someone play all the songs on an album.
You can choose whether to have the playlist open in the web browser, or in a separate player window.
For examples, click on these buttons.
Play in web browser:  
Play in separate window:
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You can use your own graphics for playlist buttons, too.
For an example of a Video Desk customer using our Playlist feature, visit Island Cinemas |
Video Email |
You can send video email without attaching huge video files to your messages. No more filling up your friends' and customers' mailboxes with huge files! No more overloading your mail server! Because the video file is stored on Video Desk, you send economical, quick email that contains only
text. When your readers click the included link, the video streams from our server and starts playing in seconds.
Try it now! Just enter your email address and click Send Video Email to receive an example of Video Desk's video email.
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Video Desk makes streaming media simple, convenient, and inexpensive. 
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| Thank you to NASA for the video footage |