Video with iWeb

To those who can help.
iWeb makes it easy to drag and drop a video into the window and add to the site to publish.
I have been experiencing problems when adding a video constructed using iMovie.
It works fine on my machine when I check it online. However when others tried to access it from theirs (prob not Mac) they were unable to view the clip.
I did try and convert and save this as an mp4, thinking that this would resolve the issue. Unfortunately the matter persists in being a stumbling block.
The only other option I had was to load it up through youtube and create the link to there from the site.
It would look much better and work more efficiently if the movie clip could be added directly onto the site through the use of iWeb.
Any fixes to the problem would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Movies published with iWeb require QuickTime.
The alternative is using a Flash video player. Most play .m4v files (made with iMovie) and .flv.
Here are samples for your pleasure to study and nim:
http://www.wyodor.net/iFrame/
http://www.wyodor.net/MoreEmbed/
And here are tutorials that explains how to embed such movies, or other HTML code, in an iWeb page.
[Using the iWeb HTML Snippet|http://www.wyodor.net/blog/archives/2009/07/entry_213.html]
[How to add a movie to your blog |http://www.wyodor.net/iWebBlogTest/Wyodor1/archives/2009/05/entry35.html] (Don't be misled by the title. It works equally well in iWeb.)
You may have to learn HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

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