Video has taken off massively on the Web, and it is often a requirement for a site to be able to use some kind of video functionality. Whether it is for displaying it or converting it, it can be a tough option on how to do it as a developer. Luckily, this is where Railo Server comes to the rescue.
Built into Railo Server is the capability of easily displaying videos on your site. Railo Server does this by enabling a player to display videos by embedding a Flash video player into the HTML of your pages and displaying videos that are encoded using the Flash Video format. You have control over what to display and how it will be displayed, as well as over links, thumbnails, and other options.
The video we are going to use in this chapter is a trailer to the movie Big Buck Bunny, which is the product of the Peach open movie project and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. This means that we are allowed to use it as our example without licensing issues. If you would...