Best Resolutions for HD to Flash videos on website

Hi,
What is your recommendation for the correct size in pixels for a Flash player on a website?
We're producing video in Premiere Pro CS4 from original 1920x1080 AVCHD footage shot on Canon HG21 cameras.
We can make the Flash player on our website any size, of course, but have some web visitors still using 1024x768.
Also, we will need to publish some videos to You-Tube HD which has an upload of 1290 x 720 resolution.
So, the question is what resolution would you configure your Flash player on the website for, given the original 1920x1080 and the need to publish sometimes to You-Tube in 1290x720?
From what I can gather measuring on screen, when you set your screen to 1024 resolution and go to You Tube and switch to HD mode, they are today playing back HD videos in an 853 to 854 pixel wide flash player about 480 pixels tall?
Thanks for your advice.
Jonathan

Thanks pvonk. I get that video is more complex than photos, but Apple still wrote its photo applications to accept all sorts of photo file types (even the many proprietary RAW formats). So I don't think it's crazy to question why this workflow isn't easier for video. Especially when Apple is the biggest champion of integrated video solutions.
Right now, here's my best guess at a workable solution. Care to weigh in?
Setup:
1) Attach a folder action to a folder (let's say ~/Movies/Imported/)
2) Folder-Action runs shell script that converts videos to mp4 via HandBrake's command line tool
3) Shell script triggers another folder action upon HandBrake completion to pushes the completed file to a new folder (let's say ~/Movies/Converted/)
4) "Converted" folder action to import to iTunes (perhaps Applescript? Automator?)
~ if one could automatically add a meta tag (let's say "AppleTV") they could be added to a smart album on iTunes that is set up to sync with AppleTV
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1) Import all movies to a folder (~/Movies/Imported/)
Does this sound about right? My shell scripting skills are less than adequate for this, so if there is a way to accomplish this with AppleScript, that'd be ideal.
Any other suggestions to simplify the workflow? The setup here still seems overly complex for a normal user. I can't imagine the folks at Apple really excited about the hurdles involved in this either, so I hope that they're working out a solution already.

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