Video on my iWeb created pages

I have tried several different methods/codecs of video loaded onto my site using iWeb. I've tried mp4, wmv, flv and mov. None of which seem to be viewable to anyone not on a Mac. Can someone please tell me why or what I may be doing wrong?
Thanks!

I added the video by dragging it into the page and resizing it to a larger scale. I'm not sure about the people who have been trying to view it and their system capabilities. I do know that some of them are graphic designers and animators and would like to hope that they've got QT installed. But I guess that's kind of my question in a nutshell. Is iWeb taking the video in whichever format I place it, even if it's a wmv or flv, and then turning it into QT? Because that has been what I've assumed but can't figure out why. It does give people the Quicktime question mark even when it was the wmv version.

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