posting vidions in html

How do you post vidios in html? Do you have to have a site to host the vidio to put it in html if so is there anywhere that has frre hosting? any help would be cool thanks

if you have the addy for the player the code is but don't put spaces in between the >'s and

Yeah, you have to use a server to host your video. I don't know anything about this website but i see a few people use it for videos http://www.putfile.com/