what is the best video player to put on a site? and what is the best soft for converting big video files to smaller and editing them and so on?

For the best video players i guess all of them like winamp and windows media player will do. If you want a very good one i suggest you get one of the dvd theater programs (Most of the time you get something like this free with a part of your pc).
In the converting business, i've used winavi with a lot of success. It can convert nearly any file format and even burn onto a cd for you.

-HellFire

thanks, but I meant ..I am setting up a website and want to put some vidoes for people to watch them, so what is the best player to put there? (like quick time or real player or something esle?)

I hosted a few videos on my website. I just put them in .wmv format for Windows Media Player. I chose that format and player for a few reaons. The biggest one being that WMP is installed on windows machines by default, so a vast majority of my target audience is using windows machines and already has it installed. So that rules out the need for 3rd party downloads, which complicates things. Makes the choice a lot easier.

It all depends on your target audience. If your target is for the non tech-savvy crowd, go with the choice I did, or even choose youtube. If yours is more for the person that knows what he or she is doing, go with quicktime, as you can get some great video with minimal compression.

I'd go with youtube personally. Everyone knows about it, but the video quality sucks. You can embed video directly to your site while youtube hosts it. That's a big advantage; youtube hosts the video. That will save on a lot of bandwidth and storage costs.

Honestly speaking, Winamp isn't exactly the best player for videos around! The way its video pane comes down (in the Modern Skin, let alone the Ol' one where there's a new skinned window!) Maybe you could get your favorite DSP Plug-in working with it, but the system seriously drops on resources for that one.

I'd suggest Windows Media Player® 10 or higher for video playback. In fact Windows Media Player® 11 is even better! You have all those 'enhancements' which work with most uncompressed videos. It supports most external DVD/DivX/XviD codecs for playback. Its fullscreen modes are quick(er) and more sensible (Have you ever wondered how harshly Winamp uses fullscreen?! )

Its a clean equation : Winamp for audio, Windows Media Player® for video!

Thanks, I may try YuoTube, but I am also going to put some videos in Real player format, they dont take much space. But thanks anyway!

Yeah sorry must've misread your post. You can embed a windows media player into your site by using the following code:


Code thanks to: http://www.mioplanet.com/rsc/embed_mediaplayer.htm (You can also visit this link for a handy list of parameters)

I'd suggest you encode in divx or something like that to get the best quality for lowest space.
If you prefer the simple option the youtube way is pretty good but only gives low res videos

-HellFire

The best video player is BS Player, also and WMP

HOw come now one knows the best media player

you know it I know you do

it is the Media Player Classic

Why you ask it has the most completely codecs and nice features it has also it a very small percent of your CPU so doesn't make it slow it also remove useless features that others add that only slows a PC not nice But Most of all it is what everyone want FREE
download it at

www.video-codecs.com

you could also download codecs their specially K-Lite codec most complete one it provides all your basic and complex video enjoyment features that you want in a player

I mainly use winamp and windows media player for all my video viewing needs. The reason for this is because I dont really know I guess because its just there and it works, haha. But yea, I often use those players to view all my videos and dvds. Sometimes I actually use my windows media center to watch dvds but I guess its still usng the windows media player just placed in a different interface.