Embeddable Video Player - Bandwidth Query

[noswad]

Hi.

Please could you look at this page. It has a video from www.youtube.com embedded within the page using the following code...

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/41tkfq5arQc"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/41tkfq5arQc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

How much will this affect my bandwidth usage? Any other hints/tips would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Camron]

If its hosted off of youtube.com and not your server then you will be using 0 bandwidth, only the bandwidth for the page to load but not the movie.

 

[noswad]

OK thanks. Its not on my server so thats good.

 

[tbl]

If it was on server: every time someone new viewed the video they effectively download the video, as they do the pages and the graphics on your site. So the bandwidth is the size of the video.