S3, a great technology provided by Amazon, allows users to store an unlimited amount of files through simple web service calls. Amazon S3 is very cost effective, only charging 15 cents per gigabyte and additional charges for the bandwith that is used during retrieveing and sending files. The scalability of Amazon S3 allows video hosting sites to trust that the videos will be available at all times and will not
add to load times when playing videos.
The flashvideo module allows users to convert uploaded video files to Flash format with the help of FFMPEG. These video files after being converted can be embedded into nodes by using a special placeholder, [video], in the node body. The project page mentions that the module has been tested with two great flash players which are:
