because youtube handels all the files you dont have to wory much about bandwidth, upload it there and stream the content using the bbcodes. if people want to download that content they can do that with 3rd party scripts just link them to one of those webpages with the scripts to download it from youtube.
less bandwidth and server load.
anyways, linux uses' differnt libraries, so unless you use wine to emulate it, its not going to work. javascript i belive is cross compatible, but i dont know if they have a vid compression/playback tool.
your better off going with something else.
there might be a player on nix that will play exe video files, but then you would need the codecs for it. see if gxin or mplayer have a codec to play them, or if bbflashback has any linux help (email them, check the forums etc).
it seems like, from the examples at the bbflashback website that exe is the larger of the 4 file types. flash is probably the best bet because it looks the smallest size.
this site here http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04 … onverters/
http://media-convert.com/ <--convert any media to any type of media
http://vixy.net/ <--download and convert vids from youtube, etc.
lists abuncha converters from css to html, to avi to flv to whatever. hope that helps.