Hi, People.
I'm developing a website for a client (A Visual DJ) who wants to post his videos on the website.
The problem is HE WANTS A VIDEO PLAYER LIKE YOUTUBE USES, BUT DOESNT WANT TO PUT HIS VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE (length, copyright issues, etc.).
So, if there's any programmer in the House who can ginger up something for me, I will appreciate you dropping a line here.
God's Blessings...

you have to implement your own.
first, streaming videos on your own is resource intensive, you have to convert it into formats that many devices can read (iphone, android, ipad, browsers etc.)

Anyway, get jwplayer, or flowplayer(just google them). Then u have to find a cloud provider that allows storing, streaming, and converting of videos for you. Try vzaar, or jwplayer cloud offerings.

My guy, no be small thing oh, and it mite be a bit expensive sha.

if u wanna go a bit cheap, u can opt to upload your videos to amazon s3, use thier transcode service to transcode the videos and deliver it to your player with amazon cloudfront. Its a cheap way but u have to be a little techy.

@sarutobi
Thanks for the advice.
Will definitely check out these resources.
God bless.

Youtube.com uses a very simple restful uri,if u notice the link youtube.com/watch?v=naira for example, query param name v makes a GET request containing d video id dat does a backend search ,wen it locates d media it produces d MediaType content on d same page, so all u need is a media framewrk on ur presentation dat does streaming so dat the protocol doesn't ask u to save a video file to ur computer.

Many thanks to everyone who has taken precious time to post on this topic - you are much appreciated.
And if there's still a nugget of wisdom out there, I'm eager to hear it.
God bless.

in addition to what sarutobi said above.

you need to first know if the client wants his media hidden from the PC cache and the average techie.
then you may be looking at streaming technologies.
else, an average flash based video player will do the trick.
i think jwplayer supports both types.

To stream, you will be using the Real Time Messaging Protocol, e.g rtmp://yoursite.com/yourApp
streaming requires you run a streaming server e.g the expensive Adobe FMS, the free Red5 Media server written in java
or RTMPy written in python and based on the very reliable Twisted framework.
I personally use RTMPy cos it is free and less resource hungry unlike Java. i used RTMPy on Clinicmatters.com chat service.
Setting this up requires some codes to build the app, it's a steep curve to learning and understand.
this can also be resource intensive and you will need a VPS or Dedicated server (root access) to get that done ($49+ monthly)
The beauty of streaming is that the media data is discarded after rendering and never stored in the cache, but there are still special softwares that can capture rtmp streams and record it. Streaming servers also have an interface that lets it detect your internet connection bandwidth and will send you an optimized version of the media file.

Non-stream just require you putting the video file on your server, even shared hosting will do
and just call the video from your flash video player over HTTP e.g http://yoursite.com/yourfile.mp4
If you need help, i can help you for a small fee.

info[at]webdezzi.com

use this :

In ur HTML

<embed width="420" height="345" id="jlo" runat="server"

type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
</embed>



In ur code (C#)

on Click event :

jlo.Attributes.Add("src", "MediaurlPath";