convert video to flash (like googe/youtube)

Macromedia Flash is what you need

 

avi2swf in SWFtools: http://www.swftools.org/ can convert a video to a flash file with the video embedded.

google uses a proprietary video format. Youtube uses the flash wrapper to hide the video source.

This is an area where the technology and intellectual rights collide -- a major pile-up on the information superhighway. Everyone wants to create their own video "standard" -- so there aren't any standards at all.

And everyone is trying to find a video standard that will protect intellectual property rights ... like all that copy protection stuff that went on at the beginning of the PC era.

MS has gone predictably overboard with their pay-per-view WM9 gimmick (instead of pay to download once and watch many, you pay each time you open the file to watch -- with WM9 automagically registering another credit card payment over the internet). The "free info" hacker world wants free download and view.

If we're going to find a happy medium (nudge nudge) in between, people are going to have to get off the extreme ends.

 

This is the player YouTube is based on. Extremely easy to set up and use:
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player

Basically, there's a SWF player that plays the FLV that you specify.