Best way to offer multimedia content on my site

[starwarsdad]

I am playing around with my personal site. I have several mpeg files that I would like to offer on the site. They can be accessed as direct downloads. I would also like to give users the option of viewing the file in their browser.

I have found 2 different code snippets that allow the functionality that I want but do not know which would be best for greater computability.

One is for WMP:
<object id="MediaPlayer1"
classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." width="320" height="300">
<param name="Filename" value="http://www.nutflicks.com/SW_Co.../#CommName#.#FileType#">
<param name="AnimationAtStart" value="true">
<PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="True">
<param name="TransparentAtStart" value="false">
<param name="ShowControls" value="true">
<param name="PlayCount" value="true">
<embed src="http://www.nutflicks.com/SW_Co...#CommName#.#FileType##"
controller=true autoplay=true playeveryframe=false pluginspage="plugin.html" width="320" height="300">
</object>

the other for quicktime:
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="320"HEIGHT="300"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="http://www.nutflicks.com/SW_Co.../#CommName#.#FileType#">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="false">
<EMBED SRC="http://www.nutflicks.com/SW_Co.../#CommName#.#FileType#" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="300"
AUTOPLAY="true" CONTROLLER="false" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Is there another / better way that would be more compatible across platforms and browsers?

Thanks!