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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 05/27/07 06:57
On May 27, 1:29 am, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
> cwdjrxyz wrote:
> > My favorite video format at the moment is the relatively new flv/swf
> > format.
>
> The problem with flv/swf is that adobe do not support a lot of platforms, the
> mpeg file format is widely supported and will work on far more platforms, see
> the example in the previously provided link.
Probably flash is supported by a larger number of computers than most
other major video formats that serious media companies usually use for
streaming. It does not support some of the little used operating
systems, but they account for such a small number of computers, that
this is of little importance. The fact remains that if you are
interested in viewing streaming video on the web from many of the
larger sites, you must be able to support flash, and WMV, and to a
lesser extent Real. Like it or not, this is how the world is at
present. Unfortunately the situation means that you often must have a
recent Microsoft or Apple OS to play many videos on the web unless
your know a lot about computers and are willing to fret with obscure
players that sometimes will play certain videos on little used OSs. Of
course one can use a dual boot computer if you hate Microsoft, and use
one of the little used OSs unless you absolutely have to fire up
Microsoft OS to view something. Most computer users now consider a
computer as just another household appliance. They expect a page to
work when they view it. They are not interested in obscure OSs that
will not work on the page or if they have to jump through hoops to get
the page to work. They have absolutely no interest in how a computer
works. Unfortunately, that is the real world. People who post in
groups such as this are very far removed from a typical computer
user.
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> > Flash is installed on many computers, and the new flv/swf
> > format can give very high video resolution, if you wish. Several large
> > sites such as Google, MySpace, and news organizations have now
> > converted to this video format for streaming video.
>
> These videos are usually of quite poor quality, just look at youtube.
You are comparing apples with oranges, If you use high resolution flv
files you get high resolution images. If you use low resolution files
you get low resolution images. Youtube has to consider that many of
their viewers may not have very high speed broadband and they want
their videos to stream. In some cases Google uses the flv flash for
streaming the video, but provides a much higher resolution video for
those who are interested enough in the video to want to download it to
the Google player.
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