Posted by J.O. Aho on 04/08/07 10:20

cwdjrxyz wrote:
> On Apr 8, 1:21 am, James Hutton <james.hut...@dsl.NOSPAM.pipex.com>
> wrote:
>> I'm building a day by day history page, and I've managed to get hold of
>> several audio and video clips from the time. (I've already sought
>> permission from the copyright holders to host them.) Some of these are a
>> simple <embed> of youtube videos, however there are also several
>> multi-mB .mp3 files and video files currently in .mpg and .wmv formats.
>>
>> I wonder what the "best" format is, and whether media should be
>> streamed, downloaded into a standalone player, or should I be all
>> dictatorial and not give the user any choice ;-) !
>>
>> I realise there will be no right or wrong answer, but I'd like to please
>> "most of the people, most of the time."
>>
>> James
>
> If you include only one format for video, then use the modern flv/swf
> method. The reason is that more computers will play flash than any
> other format.

Thats quite untrue, even if there is an opensource project for a flash player,
it do not play flash well and official flash player supports only x86
machines. Mpeg is a lot more supported format and could even be played on a
Commodore C64.


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//Aho

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